Froogle Merchant Center merged into GoogleBase

Hi:

I have seen some other users w/this issue. When connecting to uploads.google.com, I get this error everytime:

Warning: ftp_put(): php_connect_nonb() failed: No route to host (65) in /home/sunfluer/public_html/admin/froogle.php on line 351

Warning: ftp_put(): Entering Passive Mode (72,14,200,3,86,133) in /home/sunfluer/public_html/admin/froogle.php on line 351

<frustrated> Connected To: uploads.google.com Username: xxxxxxxxxxx
uploads.google.com Upload Failed </frustrated>

I can ftp to the site using FileZilla w/no issue.

I submitted to google base and it seems it worked but I got an email back with the following: (does anybody have a solution to change the headings?)

Hello,

Good news - the content of your bulk upload has been approved. However, we noticed that there were a few changes you could make to help users find your items:

• Using Froogle attributes (fields)

Using Froogle attributes (fields): We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the old Froogle product feed format. For example, you've included "product_url" as an attribute name, although this attribute is named "link" in the Google Base format. Please convert your product feed to the new Google Base format by changing the attributes names in your header line:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=40443

After you've made any changes, please be sure to re-submit the new version of your bulk upload with the same filename. If you have any questions, or need additional information about these suggestions, do not hesitate to respond to this email.

Sincerely,

The Google Team

you have to change the first word under froogle.txt to say
link then upload it
so the top row of your froogle.txt file should read:
link name description price image_url category offer_id

Thank you, I figured so much. Editing the heading in the froogle.txt by hand is the quick fix or not so quick if you have to do it over and over again.

1st:This should probably adjusted in the code somewhere so it outputs the correct headings. Did anybody do this already. I am not a coder and do not know where to start. I think many of us would appreciate a code fix for this.

2nd:Will automatic upload work anytime soon in the future?

By the way I changed googlefroogle.php as instructed in this thread and I managed to upload the file to google base. I see all items listed in my account. I did this yesterday and I tried to find my items in Froogle today. Not listed yet. Does anybody know how long it takes for froogle to list me feed? Is something wrong with my files or am I just not patient enough?

:)

the fastest way i've done it is go thru the process to generate the froogle.txt file...copy it to your computer, edit that first word...
log into google base...click on the batch upload, then browse to your file and click upload

when i upload with ftp it doesn't work right, same with zencart...so i just do it this way for now.

So long nobody could correct four lines?

1. Add Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8;
2. Use Google Base fields name.

mydanilo:

Thank you, I figured so much. Editing the heading in the froogle.txt by hand is the quick fix or not so quick if you have to do it over and over again.

1st:This should probably adjusted in the code somewhere so it outputs the correct headings. Did anybody do this already. I am not a coder and do not know where to start. I think many of us would appreciate a code fix for this.

2nd:Will automatic upload work anytime soon in the future?

By the way I changed googlefroogle.php as instructed in this thread and I managed to upload the file to google base. I see all items listed in my account. I did this yesterday and I tried to find my items in Froogle today. Not listed yet. Does anybody know how long it takes for froogle to list me feed? Is something wrong with my files or am I just not patient enough?

:)

Here is what I have tried and am awaiting results from google base.
Go to the Admin\froogle.php file
In your text editor do an EDIT>FIND on product_url
Change all entries of product_url found to link and save the file.

This seems to work as far as what I can visually see with the file but am waitng on google to read the file so I'll know later.

Ok, looks like it was all good. I have a success indicator on the file I tried already.
all 235 item...up from 110 showing in the list...

whooohooo!

BTW, I also editied the froogle.php file as mentioned earler in this thread to encode with UTF8. Used the dame instructions as the googlefroogle ones but did it in the froogle.php file near the end. Seems to have worked here as well.

mydanilo:

Will automatic upload work anytime soon in the future?

It works already. Have you set up the cron job? Assuming your hosting account supports cron? Sometimes you have to upgrade vhost account so that it supports cron.

Woody

I see there has been a number of small changes made to make the googlefroogle mod compatible with Googlebase. Once you are sure that it is working correctly, lets get it packaged and available to the community either via the download section or pm me and I can host it.

Thanks!

voltage:

I see there has been a number of small changes made to make the googlefroogle mod compatible with Googlebase. Once you are sure that it is working correctly, lets get it packaged and available to the community either via the download section or pm me and I can host it.

Thanks!
Voltage!
You tell it for me?
You can upload googlefroogle mod from my site and put it to DL section.

Cool, Andrew's site is back up!

The updated Google Froogle mod by Andrew (v 1.2.1 updated July 29, 2006) can be found at
http://zen-cart.spb.ru/freedownload.php?file=zc-contribution/GoogleFroogle.zip

And the archived Google Froogle thread is at http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30993

Sweet! :D Thanks Andrew & Woodymon.

So the CRON thing is only necessary if you want to automatically update? If I wanted to manually update it myself each month I could do so, correct? I dont think I have the cron option is why i ask...

Correct, you can do it manually.

why is it that this isnt feeding a file of all my products, it only loads like 1500 of the 4700.... when i export a file from EP, it gives me all of them... whats up with that?

and how do i fix it?

I'd fix it by not using EP and install the mod from this thread.

voltage:

I'd fix it by not using EP and install the mod from this thread.
I just installed the mod from here, with the same results.

it seems like the file is different sizes each time i create it with the feeder....

so i changed the admin timeout to 3mins instead of 1, but that didnt do anything eather.

what else could i check???

this is really odd. it is loading some of my newer products but not all of them.

i did the reset master catagory again too, but that didnt help eather.

also, it seems with this new version of the mod, that there is a new button for the config, but no new button for the tool to create/upload?

does everyone else have the same thing?

another question.

Why are my products showing on base.google.com and not on froogle.google.com?

arnt they both connected? or not? should i upload a file to hegwig.google.com? instead of uploads.google.com?

please let me know.