Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

Received a message from The Google Team stating to now submit Froogle bulk upload files (formerly known as product feeds) to GoogleBase. Froogle Merchant Center is no more, but Froogle is still available. Sounds like Froogle and GoogleBase will eventually become one and the same.

I'm hoping both Tim's and Andrew's Froogle feed modules will continue to work.

Woody

Woodymon:

Received a message from The Google Team stating to now submit Froogle bulk upload files (formerly known as product feeds) to GoogleBase. Froogle Merchant Center is no more, but Froogle is still available. Sounds like Froogle and GoogleBase will eventually become one and the same.

I'm hoping both Tim's and Andrew's Froogle feed modules will continue to work.

Woody

For now everything still works file as file as the file that is generated and uploaded. The only change is that we now upload to a new server: uploads.google.com. The same username and password still works. You can also upload from GoogleBase interface if your feed is less than 10MB

And now we can use four formats: Tab-delimited, RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0, and Atom 0.3.
I think to support only Tab-delimited and RSS 2.0 formats. And add optionally attribute support.

right...

froogle feeder has stoped working correctly for me, and is sating that my files are not utf-8 compatible....

some of the fields have changed on googlebase, so i have adapted the frooglefeeder to adopt these new field headings, but am struggling on the utf-8 bits...

any ideas people ?

Big changes on how the adds are showing up on Froogle also. Really has negatively affected sales for me. Time to study.

We had 154 error (none before this change) when uploading our Froogle File Generator file to Google Base

Is anyone addressing this???

Thanks

Same here as far as errors. Almost half of my products were excluded due to errors.
Hopefully someone will know how to fix this. I sure don't! :(
I will keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks,
Kelly

Please post example error messages GoogleBase is displaying for your feed(s).

This will provide some info for Andrew and others to go on in attempting to resolve these issues.

Woody

it is all to do with the new headers for the feed,

i have a modified version of froogle.php if anyone wishes to examine it, however, i still get a full set of errors for all my products, as the output file is not UTF-8 compatible.

now the changes i have made have not effected this, as it was one of the errors i was getting anyway.

so if someone can sort that bit out, i think we will be laughing.

Paul

plowe1:

it is all to do with the new headers for the feed,

i have a modified version of froogle.php if anyone wishes to examine it, however, i still get a full set of errors for all my products, as the output file is not UTF-8 compatible.

Again... please post the complete specific error message(s).

I got a message from google telling me my files had all been uplaoded successfully (which is odd, because the Google Base site tells me they have all failed!). They also added this to the email:
"Using Froogle attributes: We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the Froogle product feed format. We highly recommend that you use the attributes specific to the Google Base bulk upload format in your next bulk upload, as including information for these attributes will help users find your items. For more information about the Google Base bulk upload format and a complete list of attributes, please see the following link:

http://base.google.co.uk/base/tab_instructions.html "

My other site is marked as disapproved, but when you click on it , it says success. Also the number of products bears no resemblance to what I have on that site. All in all a complete balls-up!
I had really given up with Google Bse in the past because of all these problems, and decided to concentrate on Froogle. Now I've been thrown back in the nest of vipers. Ho-hum.

To be sure you're seeing all you product that is uploaded make sure you do the following:

To turn off SafeSearch in order to see adult products, click on
"Preferences" next to the search box on the Froogle homepage,
http://froogle.google.com. Once you select your preferred level of
restriction, Froogle will save your preferences.

Make sure you have cookies enabled on your browser or the preferences
won't be saved.

I know I said adult but it's kinda funny how Google decided what to know show you until you change your preference. I noticed I wasn't seeing all the products Google claimed successfully uploaded. It turned out that Google was hiding some on our **Adult **Christian T-shirts. Funny that Google sensored a Christian T-Shirt as adult content.:shocking:

Hi,

The error I receive is:
25 An invalid encoding was specified for the bulk upload file - help

An unusal chain mail frame bag with chain shoulder strap which can be hidden to create a clutch bag. Availiable now only in white -�this seasons new black!!

Clicking on the help link shows the following:

Your bulk upload contains an invalid UTF-8 character. If you are using Notepad to save your file, please select "Save As" and then select "ANSI" or "UTF-8" in the "Encoding" options.

there are 240 items in my feed of which only 68 succeed. The feed worked fine whilst it was Froogle.

HTH with the troubleshooting :)
Q

Do you see the square box in this text, "-�this seasons new black!!"?
Whatever that character is you must remove it in your upload file.

Yes I have done and it's working ok now:) I was only posting the errors as Woodymon wanted an example.

Unfortunately this means downloading the feed every time, opening it and removing the cahracters before submitting. Previously I simple ran froogle.php, it created a new file and automatically uploaded it to the froogle server. I'm hoping that posting the error may give someone a clue as to what to change in the contrib to allow it to work as before.

Cheers,
Q

Does anyone know what exactly is causing these problems?

has anyone got this to work?:shocking:

I see on Google base that the fields are different that froogle, but I am Not even getting an error message when I Upload the froogle file.:down:

Well I tried uploaded the Froogle file from froogle mod, and I uploaded it FTP. Well see if it works. There is a limit as to how many megabtyes you can upload now. What a pain in the Bu**!

IT WORKED!! woohooo!!

You have to upload VIA FTP, i tried uploading just by clicking Browse and it didnt work, but the FTP worked.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Has anybody modified the original froogle generator to help with the new google base? Anyone know if there is better luck with errors using Tim/Andrew's generator. They both worked perfect with froogle but now it's hit/miss. It's not a fault of the mod just new rules :(

It's very cumbersome to try and adjust 1,000s of product by hand as 1/2 my products are throwing error and they were fine with Froogle.