Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

I keep getting this error code when I upload a feed

We didn't understand the header (first) row of your file. Please make sure you're using valid attribute names. - help <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>: 1

can someone tell me what IM doing wrong?

numinix:

I am not sure what assistance you need on top of the explanations returned by Google? These are required attributes. If you do not have a UPC, you must have an ISBN. If you don't have an ISBN, you must have a UPC.

What? UPC and ISBN fields are not even present in Zen Cart products. I don't have them and never needed them before. Up to very recently I used v 1.3.2 and had froogle.txt file that I uploaded without any errors. Now I upgraded zen cart to 1.3.8a and figured I upgrade Google Base Feeder as well. Now the mod creates a *.xml file and I get error reports back from Google. I don't understand why I suddenly need UPC and ISBN?

I know I have some products without the description, I will fix that and see if Google still complains about UPC and ISBN.

mydanilo:

What? UPC and ISBN fields are not even present in Zen Cart products. I don't have them and never needed them before. Up to very recently I used v 1.3.2 and had froogle.txt file that I uploaded without any errors. Now I upgraded zen cart to 1.3.8a and figured I upgrade Google Base Feeder as well. Now the mod creates a *.xml file and I get error reports back from Google. I don't understand why I suddenly need UPC and ISBN?

I know I have some products without the description, I will fix that and see if Google still complains about UPC and ISBN.

I am merely reiterating what Google that Google has stated that all products need a UPC or ISBN. Whether or not they enforce it is another thing. Most likely your items were rejected for other reasons and now they are also pointing out that you do not have UPCs

Google in the UK are now requiring a EAN number this is easy to do just by changing

$content["upc"] = '<g:upc>' . zen_froogle_sanita($products->fields['products_upc'], true) . '</g:upc>
to
$content["upc"] = '<g:ean>' . zen_froogle_sanita($products->fields['products_upc'], true) . '</g:ean>
in googlefoogle.php about line 213
The problem I am having is we have about 5,000 products and at this time we are still trying to get the EAN numbers from the suppliers for about 1,500 of them, is there away to set it up so if the UPC field is blank it will not add the product to the feed.

It is as I suspected, the description that was missing was causing google to reject the items. Now all items were accepted, no more errors.

Numinix, you were correct, once items get rejected they produce a list of stuff that can be done. But only the ones showing required attribute need correction. After that, no more complains.

647 We recommend including this attribute. - help
upc:

647 The item is missing a required attribute. - help
description:

Hi,

When I upload my feed to google base, It fails and gives me the error...
We recommend including this attribute. help isbn:
7
We recommend including this attribute. help upc:
7
Google Checkout requires a quantity greater than zero. help
7
To accept Google Checkout, you must first sign up for a Google Checkout account. help
7
You must specify your website's URL on the settings page before uploading items with URLs. help
7
This expiration date is too far in the future. help expiration date:2009-05-15
12

:censored:

Lol help please

You must specify your website's URL on the settings page before uploading items with URLs

Did you do this? You have to do this in your google account somewhere under setting for your feed. Did you register your feed file?

mydanilo:

You must specify your website's URL on the settings page before uploading items with URLs

Did you do this? You have to do this in your google account somewhere under setting for your feed. Did you register your feed file?

I did, Still not working, getting Failed. We recommend including this attribute. help isbn:
7
We recommend including this attribute. help upc:
7
Google Checkout requires a quantity greater than zero. help
7
To accept Google Checkout, you must first sign up for a Google Checkout account. help
7
This expiration date is too far in the future. help expiration date:2009-05-15
12

dude5569:

I did, Still not working, getting Failed. We recommend including this attribute. help isbn:
7
We recommend including this attribute. help upc:
7
Google Checkout requires a quantity greater than zero. help
7
To accept Google Checkout, you must first sign up for a Google Checkout account. help
7
This expiration date is too far in the future. help expiration date:2009-05-15
12

I would check the Google Checkout settings.... and the expiration date can be set in the Google Base settings. Can't be more than 30 days.

Hi..

I understand the Products Feed, that's easy.. But what's the Document Feed? I don't quite understand what the purpose of that is? And do you have to create a seperate feed in Google for it?

Thanks
David

If you sell products, the product feed is for you. If you publish, sell documents, document feed is for you....

You pick what you need. I suspect you don't need to bother about documents since you asked.

Hello All,
Trouble getting GBF to work, at 1st I would get a upload failed error, It seems that GBF had created a file called (domain_products.xml) but it was trying to upload a file called (domain_products.xml_products.xml) no that is not a typ-o.
Since the file names did not match the upload failed. So I deleted the file (domain_products.xml) and recreated a product file with GBF witch it named (domain_products.xml_products.xml) and tried the upload again, the upload was successful.
However, I now get an error from Google that the upload failed,no products are live. Looking at the details it would seem that Google can not understand the file.
I am not sure where to go from here !

Can anybody help ?
Jim
https://ecmauto.com

For the output file name use only your domains name without the www and no .com

https://www.thisismydomain.com would be just thisismydomain

The mod will add the _products.xml automatically. The feed needs to be registered with exactly the same complete file name in Google Base.

Hope this helps...

mydanilo:

For the output file name use only your domains name without the www and no .com

www.thisismydomain.com would be just thisismydomain

The mod will add the _products.xml automatically. The feed needs to be registered with exactly the same complete file name in Google Base.

Hope this helps...

Hi mydanilo,
Thing is that I am not adding the ext. "_products.xml", In fact the mod does not ask me for a file name, it will generate the file name"domain_products.xml".
If I used the upload products feature in "admin-tools-google base feeder" I get an error,in the error it will tell me the path and file name of the file it tried to upload, the file it was looking for was "domain_products.xml_products.xml". I went to my c-panel and changed the name of the file to match and the upload succeeded.
However I now get an error from google that the upload failed stating that they either can not understand the URL or the attribute on nearly every line of the file.
Is it somthing the mod is doing or do I need to reformat my entire site ?
Help
Jim
https://ecmauto.com

Is there a way to have this mod create a tab-delimited plain text file instead of a XML file?

mydanilo,
Sorry i can be a bit slow at times,I found what you referd to,"admin-config-google base-output filename" the name "domain_products.xml" was a sample name,duh. I gave a name,went to c-panel and deleted the file 1st file it generated,went to admin-tools-google base and created a products feed file,it created one just as I named it and gave the ext. just as you said. I went tot my google base acct. and registerd the file excactly as named,went back to admin-tools-google base and upload product feed. It has stalled at "upload started"
jim
https://ecmauto.com

Hi all,
More info on my problem,GBF will create a .xml file but it stalls at "upload started". I can upload it manualy however,but, google reject it reporting errors in every link url in the file.It seems that they are missing the "http://"prefix that google requires. How can I fix this ?
anyone!
Thanks,jim
https://ecmauto.com

Google Base Feeder Configuration

Store Address

make sure you use http://www.yourdomainname.com

not just yourdomainname.com

Danilo,
Thanks for the reply, since last post I went through the .xml file that GBF generated and added the "https://mydomain.com/"in front of every link and uploaded again manually,Google reported no errors this time, Trouble is that I will have to modify the .xml file every time I generate a new one,monthly,before upload.What a headache.
Bigger problem however is that I never checked my site during all this,when I did I found it was down,reported a 1064 syntax error and made the site unusable. I un-installed GBF and site is now fixed.
Any suggestions on how to correct ?

Jim
https://ecmauto.com

ecmauto:

Danilo,
Thanks for the reply, since last post I went through the .xml file that GBF generated and added the "https://mydomain.com/"in front of every link and uploaded again manually,Google reported no errors this time, Trouble is that I will have to modify the .xml file every time I generate a new one,monthly,before upload.What a headache.
Bigger problem however is that I never checked my site during all this,when I did I found it was down,reported a 1064 syntax error and made the site unusable. I un-installed GBF and site is now fixed.
Any suggestions on how to correct ?

Jim
https://ecmauto.com

I believe he was just telling you to put http://www.ecmauto.com for the setting STORE ADDRESS located in ADMIN->CONFIGURATION->GOOGLE BASE FEEDER CONFIGURATION.