Google Base Feeder Support Thread [OLD]

Just incase anyone else had this problem.

The reason why my feed suddenly stopped working was due to a description formatting error.

I used a Bön (which is an o with two dots over it) in one of my descriptions.

So in other words, if you use special charters in your products descriptions the xml formatting does not recognize, your feed will error out and seem to suddenly stop working.

When in reality, you screwed up like me. Dont feel bad, you not alone!!! :oops:

Live, Learn or die trying! Thank you for the EXCELLENT mod!

Any idea why im getting an internal server error i posted a couple of posts before.
cheers

It sounds like you forgot to change the permissions on the feed folder to 755 or 777.

Which connect error are you getting a 500?

The chmod settings for the feed directory are 777. The feed has been created and i can view it. In mozilla and IE i get internal server error 500.
hope it can be sorted

I am still trying to get the lowest price into the feed file.

mydanilo:

I tried to replace

						$price = zen_get_products_actual_price($products->fields['products_id']);

> 
> with:
> ```php
$price = zen_get_products_discount_price_qty($products->fields['products_id']);

I guess this would have been too easy. I do not know enough about PHP to be able to come up with the right solution. Could somebody give me a hand?

Has anybody done this successfully?

Ok i think i know whats causing the problem but dont know how to fix it. When i go to admin/config/googlebase i notice that all of my settings have reversed back to the default settings so they are not saving over. I changed the settings again and logged out then logged back in and all of my settings were ok. when i logged in today the default settings are showing

Anyone know if google has changed anything, or if they are not working for some reason?

Do not seem to be able to upload, and I just keep getting on the bottom lines.
**
Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...**

I don't think I have changed any of the settings, as I have not used it for a few weeks. Just pressed the links as normal, it made the feed OK and I can view it, but when I try to upload I just get the above error.

Thanks for any help and hope you are having a good weekend.

I am the same, mine was working perfectly, no alterations now can't connect via FTP through the site.....

Anyone any ideas?

I have been able to add manually through googles control panel

It will not allow me to add it manually either as it says that the feed is not live

I've been able to add my feed manually, but no matter what I try, I can't upload via Google Base Feeder. Google must have done something on their end since we are all having the same problem. Anyone been able to contact them yet, or figure it out?

Getting same error as meknownowt a couple of posts back...

**Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...**

Does not work via cron job or manually under Admin/Tools/Google Base Feeder....

tcustomgolf:

Getting same error as meknownowt a couple of posts back...

**Processing: Feed - No, Upload - Yes
Upload started...
Connection failed: uploads.google.com

Upload failed...**

Does not work via cron job or manually under Admin/Tools/Google Base Feeder....

Uh... That's the same error that everyone in the last several posts since meknownowt is talking about. :huh:

As of today, information on this problem is very limited as Google hasn't been very forthcoming with answers yet. The problem isn't limited to zencart users and is apparently affecting commercial users as well. Check these articles:

Google Forum
and here
and here

Manual insertion still works fine from your Google Base account.

hmm. my ftp_username and ftp details just dont save over. Well they do for a little while but when i check the following day the details are reverted to the default settings. I have checked that the feed file is set to 777 and i can not do a manual submit either. The datafeed gets created but i get a 500 internal server error when i try to upload it. Any idea or any help as to how i can do a manual submit.

cheers

abs007...just save your data feed locally, go into your google base account, click the data feeds link. You will see an upload section, and click the upload file.

Hi thanks for the response. I have tried to do that but google base is not accepting the datafeed. this is the error message that i get

We did not understand some of the XML formatting in your file. You may be missing a tag or have a nesting or formatting error.

Also it looks like my details are saving now

any idea

I tried to edit the post above but the time ran out

Maybe i am saving the datafeed in the wrong way when i am trying to do a manual submission. I am copying the page contents of the data feed and pasting it into notepad then saving it as a .xml file. Is this correct?

Still the same for me, manual is ine once logged into the base account but otherwise upload feed doesn't work from within zen anymore

Is there a way of getting google to reply as to whats wrong?

I suppose the only good thing is we know its nothing we have done wrong !!

yorick00:

i know pretty good about read me file and always read this twice before whine on forums. this file are complete unclear ... i try to explain, probably you misunderstanding me:

look, please, at this screen of admin panel>conf>GBF conf

than according user manual file:

1. Unzip and upload all files to your store directory (except .sql files); DONE! IT IS CLEAR.

2. Chmod feed directory to 777 DONE! IT IS CLEAR.

3. Go to Admin->Tools->Install SQL Patches and install googlefroogle.sql by copying and pasting (do not upload); DONE! IT IS CLEAR.

4. Go to http://base.google.com and create/sign to your account. Follow the link on the right hand side of their website to create your FTP account. DONE! IT IS CLEAR.

5. Go to Admin->Configuration->Google Base Configuration and setup all parameters; DONE! IT IS CLEAR.

6. Register your bulk upload .xml file using the same name in your Google Base Configuration at base.google.com FAILED! IT IS UNCLEAR! According to my screen there are no any lines for same name. Or there is any other configuration options??? What kind of same name he talking about? My feed file name is "omfgsamename.xml" on which field i should enter it, frankly speaking i can not find any suitable.

7. Go to Admin->Tools>Google Base Feeder and follow instructions to create, view, and upload feed file. FIALED. When i click on Create Product Feed: Click [HERE] to create / update your products feed - GOES nothing - plugin generates new pop-up blank window with none content or any kind of text, steps or other info, tested on 3 different browsers.

So it even do not creates product feed ... :dontgetit

So, please, could anybody help me with this problem i am stuck 2 days ahead. :frusty: i will be thankful for ages. thanks in advance.

So, any one can help mу, :frusty:

Hi there,

I installed the most recent version of this and am having some issues with it. For some reason, the HTML tags are not being removed from the product descriptions. I'm seeing all the <b>, <p> etc tags in the "Description" field for the XML file and it's causing it to be seen as invalid.

Any thoughts?

thanks