Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

numinix:

v1.4.10 GOOGLE BASE FEEDER

1. Fixed duplicate entries from linked products;
2. Code optimization;

This is not a beta version and will be available in the downloads section or by following the link above.

Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!! This release fixed the duplicate problem. I am glad to know I wasn't losing my mind over nothing :)

I've now fixed the issue in all of my feeders. I'm also releasing an eBay beta feeder right now.

P.S.

Remember to donate when you can!

Many thanks for the continued support for this great module.

And thank you again for your supporting my contributions ARRSE.

Have you had a chance to test the eBay feeder? I'm about to release another bug patch v0.9.2 in the next 30 minutes.

Hey everyone,

I un installed 1.48 and installed 1.4.10 and have he same problem. I am only getting 70 products put into my feed file and it finishes in 2seconds. What can I do to get this to capture all my products.Come on Numinix help me out. Thanks

Jack

holbrja:

Hey everyone,

I un installed 1.48 and installed 1.4.10 and have he same problem. I am only getting 70 products put into my feed file and it finishes in 2seconds. What can I do to get this to capture all my products.Come on Numinix help me out. Thanks

Jack

What filters are you using?

What other scripts do you have installed (are any of them used to create/store products)?

Hi,

Found a problem while uploading; I am sure somebody else has encountered; it is not really a bug at the module nor google, but here it is:

This is my item description:

Satin "wedding night" pillow, Wedding leis with silver bells, "just married" antenna heart, Card with personal message, Cello bag, Sizzle paper shred

When the bulk upload file gets processed google base, google gets stuck at the quotation marks. Is there a way to filter them (and other non google-base friendly characters) out when the script generates the text file?

Thanks very much

This is a correction to my previous message: I think the problem is not just the quotations, but that google is thinking they are "nested" quotations because I have two sets of them.

numinix:

Find out the attribute and I'll have it added in a couple of days.

What you are saying is that although you've set in the Google Base Configuration to use file feed.txt, it continues to write to froogle.txt? When you upgraded to the latest version, did you reupload all the files (except the core overwrites identified in the readme.txt file)? Talk to me in PM and I will take a look at your configuration.

onlyrey:

Hi,

Found a problem while uploading; I am sure somebody else has encountered; it is not really a bug at the module nor google, but here it is:

This is my item description:

When the bulk upload file gets processed google base, google gets stuck at the quotation marks. Is there a way to filter them (and other non google-base friendly characters) out when the script generates the text file?

Thanks very much

I'll take a look at it tomorrow. It's easy to fix. You can save me some time by finding me the portion on Google Base that says what to do with quotations and other illegal characters. For eBay you just used double "" for ". I can also change it to "

numinix:

What filters are you using?

What other scripts do you have installed (are any of them used to create/store products)?

Hi Numinix,

I have these mods installed. Quick Updates, Easy Populate, Recover Carts, Image Handler2,Paypal Ipn, Paypal Express checkout. I have no filters that I set up. This is it as I am a novice and I try not to screw to many things up. I hope this helps.

Jack

I just wanna say thank you for this contribution! This is freaking awesome!

:clap::clap::clap::cheers::thumbsup:

Hi yet again,

I had another problem with this contribution as well as with the sitemap contribution.

When they are installed (don't know which one or if both), they create a problem with the required attributes loosing their "required" status even though the admin page shows them as "required".

Here is a fix grantc in another thread found:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=396323&postcount=20

sobebabies:

I just wanna say thank you for this contribution! This is freaking awesome!

:clap::clap::clap::cheers::thumbsup:

Your very welcome! I hope that this script will help your ecommerce company
:bigups:

Hello,

i would like to add the shipping weight and the breadcrumbs that lead to each product.

I use the google feed for 5 different product search engines

1. Google Base
2. Yahoo Shopping
3. Nextag
4. MSN Product Live
5. Bizrate / Shopzilla

They all are pretty much the same however some need a couple different attributes an I have thousands of products so to find those 2 items that I need would be very cumbersome.

How could I get those to attributes added and what file do I change?

Thank you for you help

You can edit googlefroogle.php found in the root directory.

numinix:

You can edit googlefroogle.php found in the root directory.

Ok however I dont know exactly what I need to add to get the weight and the breadcrumbs. Can you help, which in turn will make a version that will work for all 5 version of shopping comparison engines that I mentioned above.

avel

batteryman:

Ok however I dont know exactly what I need to add to get the weight and the breadcrumbs. Can you help, which in turn will make a version that will work for all 5 version of shopping comparison engines that I mentioned above.

avel

You would need to edit the SQL query to also pull the products_weight and then write a line to output the products_weight under the appropriate heading.

I'm not sure what the breadcrumbs are as I've never used them.

Since upgrading my google base is now throwing errors. Here are some samples:

We were unable to match the attributes in this tab-delimited bulk upload line to the correct header attributes. There are a few common reasons why you might encounter this error:

Your bulk upload contains an invalid character for the current encoding setting or contains a disallowed character.

There are fewer columns in this row than in your header (first) row. You may be missing a delimiter.

I have tried generating this with and without the upc/isbn enabled in the configuration and I still get errors.

Any ideas on what I need to do different? Thanks!

numinix:

You would need to edit the SQL query to also pull the products_weight and then write a line to output the products_weight under the appropriate heading.

I'm not sure what the breadcrumbs are as I've never used them.

Sorry for the confusion, I am a beginner on php so I need a little more guidance. mmm now that I think about it alot more lol

The breadcrumbs are the trail that lead to a product on top of the a zencart site. the link that say:

Home :: Notebooks :: Sempron :: ACER ASPIRE 3050-1270 AMD SEMPRON 3400+ 2.0 GHz 14.1" 120GB 1GB VH LAPTOP

I need this to e displayed in a column along with each product.

That was an example from your site. which I think I need to be linked to and you need to be linked to me. You offer the electronics and I offer the batteries to them. that is a side note.

BlessIsaacola:

Since upgrading my google base is now throwing errors. Here are some samples:

We were unable to match the attributes in this tab-delimited bulk upload line to the correct header attributes. There are a few common reasons why you might encounter this error:

Your bulk upload contains an invalid character for the current encoding setting or contains a disallowed character.

There are fewer columns in this row than in your header (first) row. You may be missing a delimiter.

I have tried generating this with and without the upc/isbn enabled in the configuration and I still get errors.

Any ideas on what I need to do different? Thanks!

There are possibly illegal characters in the description. I'll take a look at the sanitizer and see if it's possibly missing anything.