Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

[countrycharm]

Nothing appears to have changed. If you go thru the process of the google feed by way of zen admin you can read an error in step 2. If you go thru all the steps without looking at the actual feed it appears to be fine.

In google merchant it only ever said there were 57 items listed with errors and there are actually over a 1,000 items listed in the store. Also in google merchant it now said there were 0 items.

If you don't know what version of google base you are using I guess you are not using the latest version. You can go here to download it. Try that and see what happens. I had to modify one file but after that it works like a charm with zencat 1.3.9d. The errors can be corrected by changing some of the code in the Google Base Feed sanitizer. I can help you with that when the time comes if it doesn't work out of the box.

[thebeveragegourmet]

OMG...I fixed it! I can't believe it!

I used the newest download of google base. Once that was installed, I replaced the "admin" section of google base files with my old set of admin files for google base (from my 1.3.6 store before upgrade). That worked!

[stitchnkitty]

Good evening fellow zenners!

I have been on the google site and have decided to tackle a google based Rss Feed.

I created a 3 item feed and was trying to debug and look at the prospect of loading on all my products - what work.

stumbled on a felliow zenner who had developed the feed thru zencart. Soooooo Duh - should have know the smart zenners would have already thought of this.

I am starting from scratch and jumping in the middle of a 234posting thread and have no idea where to start - Just a point as to where to start my reading! this thread is over 2 years old and alot is probably invalid by now. or I might be wrong here to!

Pointing is good! TIA

[countrycharm]

Good evening fellow zenners!

I have been on the google site and have decided to tackle a google based Rss Feed.

I created a 3 item feed and was trying to debug and look at the prospect of loading on all my products - what work.

stumbled on a felliow zenner who had developed the feed thru zencart. Soooooo Duh - should have know the smart zenners would have already thought of this.

I am starting from scratch and jumping in the middle of a 234posting thread and have no idea where to start - Just a point as to where to start my reading! this thread is over 2 years old and alot is probably invalid by now. or I might be wrong here to!

Pointing is good! TIA

You can go here to download the latest Google Base Feeder. After that read the read me that comes with it. If you have any problems come back here for help. You must go to Google Merchant Center to sing up for an account if you have not done so all ready. Hope this has helped you.

[ZeeRocK]

Hello all,

When I view my products feed the url is www.mysite.com/feed/domain_products.xml and you see all the products there, but when you click on any of the product links I get 404 error and the url looks like www.mysite.com/language/en/category/manufacturer/product_name

Obviously I don't have language (en) in my urls. I have looked into my google base feed admin and there's nothing there. I also use site_map XML module which is working fine.

I have 1.3.8a version and 1.7.4 (latest) version for google base. Anyone also encountered this problem ? How to get rid of that english instance from my urls.

Thanks.

[countrycharm]

Hello all,

When I view my products feed the url is www.mysite.com/feed/domain_products.xml and you see all the products there, but when you click on any of the product links I get 404 error and the url looks like www.mysite.com/language/en/category/manufacturer/product_name

Obviously I don't have language (en) in my urls. I have looked into my google base feed admin and there's nothing there. I also use site_map XML module which is working fine.

I have 1.3.8a version and 1.7.4 (latest) version for google base. Anyone also encountered this problem ? How to get rid of that english instance from my urls.

Thanks.

You can check your store admin/configurations/google_base and see what you have set it for. Show Feed Language true or false. You also need to upgrade to the latest version of Google base. See my post above for that.

[ZeeRocK]

You can check your store admin/configurations/google_base and see what you have set it for. Show Feed Language true or false. You also need to upgrade to the latest version of Google base. See my post above for that.

Hello there,

Thank you everything is sorted. For some reason when I don't fill up Query limit and Query offset, it creates products but same language problem, but when I set a query limit it loads products and language problem is also gone. Not sure what causes this problem.

My feed gets disapproved with in 2 minutes of uploads for the last 2 months or so and before it was all ok. I have contacted google and they just sent me an automated mail.

I'm pretty much sure its not the module but something to do with my site and I'll keep looking for the solution.

Thank you for your help.

Enjoy your weekend.

[jdalton]

I have been using this module for approx 6 weeks now with no issues until lately. Google stopped listing my products eventhough there was no error in my google base account. On querying google I got the following response..

"Please note, CDATA is a special notation for data that allows you to use & (and ONLY &). Therefore, should not be used for
any other characters."

So how can I disable CDATA if that is what is required? I noticed in the google_base.php file that CDATA is set to false

function google_base_xml_sanitizer($str, $cdata = false) {

however it appears in the xml feed??

http://www.ethoil.com/store/feed/goo...l_products.xml

[countrycharm]

I have been using this module for approx 6 weeks now with no issues until lately. Google stopped listing my products eventhough there was no error in my google base account. On querying google I got the following response..

"Please note, CDATA is a special notation for data that allows you to use & (and ONLY &). Therefore, should not be used for
any other characters."

So how can I disable CDATA if that is what is required? I noticed in the google_base.php file that CDATA is set to false

function google_base_xml_sanitizer($str, $cdata = false) {

however it appears in the xml feed??

http://www.ethoil.com/store/feed/goo...l_products.xml

Swap out your google_base.php code with this one and see if it will make a difference. Download it from here.

In \includes\classes\google_base.php make a backup and upload the new google_base.php Maybe this will solve your problem.

[feef]

I've just installed google base feeder and got it working, to some extent...

The output from the cron shows everything seems to work as expected, with no errors, except that it only parses 23 products.

The 23 products it does parse, I can see in the google merchant system fine, but why isn't it doing the entire catalogue.

I can't find any reference to a threshold anywhere.

Any ideas?


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