Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

v1.7.0 has been released which supports the News and Articles Manager. Also fixes the bugs for invalid characters which were still included in v1.6.17. The module has also been restructured to move all of the functions into a class google_base().

The number of parameters passed to the script through the URL has been reduced from 3 to 1 to avoid problems with the cron missing a parameter and thus making the command fail.

The new structure of the single parameter is as follows:

example /googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_uy_tp

This would mean yes (y) create the feed (f), yes (y) upload (u) the feed, and set the type (t) to products (p).
Other types are (d) downloads, and news (n).

In version v1.7.0 Are there any sql updates after you
Upload/Overwrite all files?

Thanks

I installed the latest version 1.6.17. It had no readme file that I could find, so I did what I could. now when I go to create my feed I get an error: "ERROR: yes is not a valid feed template".

I saw a previous poster had that same error that resulted from a Wordpress conflict. Is there any way around this?

countrycharm:

In version v1.7.0 Are there any sql updates after you
Upload/Overwrite all files?

Thanks

No there aren't.

Thank you for your hard work and support on this Module.

I am getting successful upload messages for both the documents and products folders, yet no items are showing up within my Google Base account under the "items listed". Not even a date for last upload.

I am able to successfully upload one item at a time. Everything a-ok and the item does show under "my listed items:.

Not sure about the chmod to 777 deal though.

Not even entirely sure if this is the right feed folder that was suppose to change?

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/feed

Any way..... I have to guess that have set or not set something wrong within my Google Base Feeder Config??

Any suggestions and help sure would be appreciated :smile:

taogem:

I am getting successful upload messages for both the documents and products folders, yet no items are showing up within my Google Base account under the "items listed". Not even a date for last upload.

I am able to successfully upload one item at a time. Everything a-ok and the item does show under "my listed items:.

Not sure about the chmod to 777 deal though.

Not even entirely sure if this is the right feed folder that was suppose to change?

/public_html/taogemst_myzencart/feed

Any way..... I have to guess that have set or not set something wrong within my Google Base Feeder Config??

Any suggestions and help sure would be appreciated :smile:

Have you registered the feed file and made sure the filenames match on your server and what you've registered? Google should send you an error email if the feed names do not match.

Please read through the documentation:

http://www.numinix.com/index.php?main_page=google_base_documentation

Thanks Numinix,

All is well. Everything is working and products are active.

Looking good!!

I upgraded to 1.7 and I am looking at the result from my cron job email result. Looks like it ran successfully.

Cron danilo@server3 wget http://www.mydanilo.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes&type=products
mailed-by server3.hostxxxx.biz

hide details 9:00 AM (2 hours ago)

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--09:00:39-- http://www.mydanilo.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes
=> `googlefroogle.php?feed=yes.3'
Resolving https://www.mydanilo.com... xxx
Connecting to www.mydanilo.com|xxxxx:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

0K 21.41 MB/s

09:00:40 (21.41 MB/s) - `googlefroogle.php?feed=yes.3' saved [193]

Now I connect with my ftp to my server and look at the /feed folder. My mydanilo_products.xml is NOT updated. Still the same old date.

Would the cron not also write a new file in the /feed folder before uploading?

With the old version I had noticed that a mydanilo_.xml got written to the /feed folder even though I defined mydanilo_products.xml as the feed file.

mydanilo_products.xml gets created fine if I just use the admin to do it.

mydanilo, you've made the error that was highlighted multiple times in the new documentation as well as the official forum.

NOTICE

The parameters passed to googlefroogle.php have changed, please update your cron commands accordingly.

Ok Ok, yes I found it a few posts back. BUT noting is mentioned in the doc link you had with the mod.
http://www.numinix.com/index.php?main_page=google_base_documentation

...would have helped and reduced questions here in the forum.

Part of the info in this forum, your forum, the doc link... oh well should not complain. Sometimes just hard to find to find the trees in the forest I guess.

Thank you for the mod!!

I feel I have to apologize. :blush: I looked in my admin and the google base feeder page clearly has the new cron job examples listed. Oh well, I guess it just looked so the same to me.

So anyway, I will post the result tomorrow. Hopefully it will work now.

For everybody blind like me, this is how cron should be set now for v1.7:

To have this update and automatically upload product feed to Google Base, you will need to set up a Cron job via your host's control panel.
To run it as a cron job (i.e. at 5:00 am), put something in your crontab like the following:

0 5 * * * GET http://www.yourdomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_uy_tp (other types: td for documents, tn for news)
or
0 5 * * * wget http://www.yourdomain.com/googlefroogle.php?feed=fy_uy_tp

1.7 with the suggested wget command works fine now. Thank you.

i was just setting up Google Base Feeder with all updates. works fine and Google approved it too :)

anyone tried to use the feeder with a shop running English/German language?

I figured out a way to create a feed in english and german by changing the settings in

admin - Configuration - Google Base Feeder Configuration :

Show Default Currency false
Default Currency USD / EUR
Feed Language English / German
Output File Name English_products / German_products

advantage: :smile:

i got files to submit in United States and Germany

disadvantage: :frusty:

can't use the cron job function as i always have to change the settings before

feed in German language doesn't support German letters

Any help would be very appreciated :)

Thanks

You could modify the script to accept a language parameter and use that if it exists, otherwise use the default.

I just installed 1.7 on Zen 1.3.8a. Origonally I tried upgrading from 1.6.7 but had a few issues so I decided to remove 1.6.7 and install fresh. After running the uninstall.sql for 1.6.7 , overwriting all the files with new 1.7 files and setting up my Google Base account info again I get an error when trying to generate a product feed.
Basically the last line in the pop up windows states....

Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

I have uploaded the new files 3 times now, and have tried rerunning the .sql script as many and Im stumped.
One other thing I am noticing is that the first line of the feed generation pop up windows is this:
Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16 07.03.2008 23:40:59 started 2008/10/06 00:55:40
Shouldnt that say v.1.7 ??

I have this on a local test server in my office as well and the feed generation works but the upload does not. Same info though on the line above-- Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16

Any suggestion in what may be causing this? Im not as concerned about versioning info as long as the feed generation works.

TIA

I just installed 1.7 on Zen 1.3.8a. Origonally I tried upgrading from 1.6.7 but had a few issues so I decided to remove 1.6.7 and install fresh. After running the uninstall.sql for 1.6.7 , overwriting all the files with new 1.7 files and setting up my Google Base account info again I get an error when trying to generate a product feed.
Basically the last line in the pop up windows states....

Processing: Feed - No, Upload - No

I have uploaded the new files 3 times now, and have tried rerunning the .sql script as many and Im stumped.
One other thing I am noticing is that the first line of the feed generation pop up windows is this:
Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16 07.03.2008 23:40:59 started 2008/10/06 00:55:40
Shouldnt that say v.1.7 ??

I have this on a local test server in my office as well and the feed generation works but the upload does not. Same info though on the line above-- Google Base Feeder v.1.6.16

Any suggestion in what may be causing this? Im not as concerned about versioning info as long as the feed generation works.

TIA

This may help you.

1. BACK UP YOUR DATABASE
2. Go into PHPMYADMIN browse the 'configuration' table
3. Sort by 'configuration_key'
4. Delete all rows that contain configuration_keys that begin with GOOGLE_BASE or GOOGLE_FROOGLE
5. Run the install for the latest version Google Base Feeder v1.7.0

countrycharm:

This may help you.

1. BACK UP YOUR DATABASE
2. Go into PHPMYADMIN browse the 'configuration' table
3. Sort by 'configuration_key'
4. Delete all rows that contain configuration_keys that begin with GOOGLE_BASE or GOOGLE_FROOGLE
5. Run the install for the latest version Google Base Feeder v1.7.0

That seems to be what my problem was. After clearing out the DB as noted and re running the .sql install all is good.
Thanks countrycharm!!!!!

Another method, rather than deleting the rows is to go into your configuration_group table and find what configuration_group_id has been given to Google Base.

Then, go into your configuration table and find the GOOGLE keys that have a configuration_group_id = 0 and set this to the configuration_group_id from the first step above.

This method is faster but involves a little more knowledge of navigating PHPMYADMIN.

i have a problem google feeder is only recognizing 11,900 of my 15,150 products and i when i used the easy populate version for google base it would get all of my products....what is going on i need to use the google base feeder though, because i installed magic seo urls and those urls wont work with the easy populate google base download of my file...please help thanks