OH this GOOGLE BASE and cron!

I am trying to set my cron up to do the google base "thing" once a week.

What should I put for the file it needs to crab?
I have no idea and it's driving me crazy!

Thank you,
~eDee

The cron job code is provided in the readme files. You have to make sure your host allows cron jobs to be set by clients (usually via C-Panel), and if so, you have to know if there are limitations on the way the cron is set up. (Some hosts, for example, don't allow "wget" commands.

There are tutorials on the WWW explaining how to set up a cron job - C-Panel usually allows you to use a "standard" or "advanced" interface.

Look at the cron command instructions provided in the googlebase mod readme files, then, in your c-panel cron screen, toggle between the "standard" and "advanced" input screens - you'll see what is required.

This to generate the file:

GET'http://www.mysite.co.uk/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=no&type=products' > /dev/null 2>&1

This to upload it

GET 'http://www.mysite.co.uk/googlefroogle.php?feed=yes&upload=yes&type=products' > /dev/null 2>&1

Did you know that Google Base now has an option to upload from a file that you can specify from within the Google Base interface? This completely eliminates the whole cron problem. Just update your Google Base file within your admin panel before the automatic upload of the file. Sweet! :D

I have never gotten the cron job to work. It creates a file that is devoid of the _products extension.

Instead, I generate it weekly manually, and use Google's auto-upload feature described above. Would love to hear from someone who actually got the cron job to work right!

lankeeyankee:

Did you know that Google Base now has an option to upload from a file that you can specify from within the Google Base interface? This completely eliminates the whole cron problem. Just update your Google Base file within your admin panel before the automatic upload of the file. Sweet! :D

I notice this too. I've managed to create the file with cron job but it never worked to upload. This might be the solution, using the combination of the two to completely automate the process.