Automatically send data feed to Froogle

[RojanUK]

Weird, must have been a froogle thing, all my images are now showing....See if your OK now..

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Nope, I'm still on 'image unavailable', which I have been ever since my feed got approved.... :'(

[poorman]

I am going to keep an eye on mine, funny, I hope they solve your issue, you try rebuilding your feed and uploading it ?, not sure if you have, I know mine was just updated yesterday and is live now....

[♥kymation]

Google copies your images to their servers. If the image exists at the location you have given but Google doesn't have it in their cache, then there is something preventing googlebot from retrieving the images. Check your robots.txt to see that you haven't blocked access to your images directory. Also, if you have referrer rules (or other tactics to prevent image theft), these can prevent googlebot from getting the images.

 

Regards

Jim

[RojanUK]

Google copies your images to their servers. If the image exists at the location you have given but Google doesn't have it in their cache, then there is something preventing? googlebot from retrieving the images. Check your robots.txt to see that you haven't blocked access to your images directory. Also, if you have referrer rules (or other tactics to prevent image theft), these can prevent googlebot from getting the images.

 

Regards

Jim

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I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like I disallowed the google image bot to do it's business in the robots.txt file. I've changed this now. Is there any way of getting Froogle to reindex it? I have just ran froogle.php again, but is that enough?

Edited May 5, 2005 by RojanUK

[♥kymation]

That should be enough. I'm not certain how often Google sends the bot out to fetch images. It might take a while for that to happen.

 

Regards

Jim

[emsthings]

I am tring to use the FroogleDataFeeder_v161 mod but the order of the output file is wrong. I can't seem figure out how to change it. When it outputs the files it puts them in

product_url name description price image_url category

but is needs to be in.

product_url name description image_url category price

I can't seem to find the code to switch around.

Anyhelp would greatly appreciated.

[Stevis2002]

I am tring to use the FroogleDataFeeder_v161 mod but the order of the output file is wrong. I can't seem figure out how to change it. When it outputs the files it puts them in

product_url name description price image_url category

but is needs to be in.

product_url name description image_url category price

I can't seem to find the code to switch around.

Anyhelp would greatly appreciated.

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How do you know it's wrong?

Are you sure that the problem isn't an extra tab?

[emsthings]

I am tring to use the FroogleDataFeeder_v161 mod but the order of the output file is wrong. I can't seem figure out how to change it. When it outputs the files it puts them in

product_url name description price image_url category

but is needs to be in.

product_url name description image_url category price

I can't seem to find the code to switch around.

Anyhelp would greatly appreciated.

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Well when it creates the data feed file. It comes out in the wrong order I used uploaded it and google says all products successful with 1 error. This is the only error I can find wrong with the file when comparing it to there feed example.

[RojanUK]

Well when it creates the data feed file. It comes out in the wrong order I used uploaded it and google says all products successful with 1 error. This is the only error I can find wrong with the file when comparing it to there feed example.

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Has your feed been approved yet? If it hasn't that shows up as an error, even though the upload of your products was succesful. Took a while with me to get my feed approved after all products were uploaded.

[RojanUK]

Still no pictures for me in my feed, except for two products. My stats show that the googlebot hasn't visited my site at all this month. And what's even worse, Google still hasn't answered my email. I know they are slow, but this is ridiculous. :'(

[darkvader]

Hi,

 

I hope someone can help me, I had installed this contirbution about a month ago and actually succesfully upload a file onto my Froogle account, but for some reason Froogle status on my account always say Error on feed.

 

I had double check everything and open the text file several times to check is their is something wrong; but I don't see anything wrong.

 

Somone told me that some caracthers on the feed maybe illigal caracthers but I had not yet found on the Froogle website a list of none legal Character to compare.

 

Please help

 

Thanks in advance. :thumbsup:

 

Still no pictures for me in my feed, except for two products. My stats show that the googlebot hasn't visited my site at all this month. And what's even worse, Google still hasn't answered my email. I know they are slow, but this is ridiculous.  :'(

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[RojanUK]

Hi,

 

I hope someone can help me, I had installed this contirbution about a month ago and actually succesfully upload a file onto my Froogle account, but for some reason Froogle status on my account always say Error on feed.

 

I had double check everything and open the text file several times to check is their is something wrong; but I don't see anything wrong.

 

Somone told me that some caracthers on the feed maybe illigal caracthers but I had not yet found on the Froogle website a list of none legal Character to compare.

 

Please help

 

Thanks in advance.  :thumbsup:

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For you goes the same question I asked earlier to somebody else:

Has your feed been approved yet? If it hasn't that shows up as an error, even though the upload of your products was succesful. Took a while with me to get my feed approved after all products were uploaded.

[darkvader]

Well it had been almost 4 month now and not approval had happen. I had not receive an email about it.

 

The file still show as error on Froogle

 

What the heck is happening?

 

For you goes the same question I asked earlier to somebody else:

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[FlyingMonkey]

The order of the Feed should be fine.

 

It's been in this order, since the original Froogle Data Feeder.

 

Froogle/Google is notorious for their slow responses. Patience is virtue.

 

Pictures may not show up if you have spaces or odd characters in your image names.

 

I have a beta ready for testing that includes feature request and may resolve a few of the issues people are experiencing. Please PM me if your interested.

Edited May 10, 2005 by FlyingMonkey

[MartynMoore]

Hi Guys

 

Anyone able to give me a hand with this?

 

Everything installed OK, permissons as far as I'm concerned are set up correctly. When I try to test it but going to the froogle.php it comes back with:

 

Error when connecting itself to the data base

 

I have checked the DB name, User Name & password but alas still not working. Have I missed something silly. Is there meant to be a file route to the database?

 

Regards

 

 

Martyn

[Guest]

Well it had been almost 4 month now and not approval had happen. I had not receive an email about it.

 

The file still show as error on Froogle

 

What the heck is happening?

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4 months is rather a long time... I've got mine going and approved, and it took about a week from the first feed to approval. I did upload a new feed every day during that period. I suggest contacting Google using the Froogle on-line form - then reply to the email you receive from them (that one's automated) - be prepared to wait for up to a fortnight for a personal response however.

 

Now I'm waiting for my UK feed's approval... (4 days so far, should be soon.....)

 

Cheers

John

[Guest]

Hi Guys

 

Anyone able to give me a hand with this?

 

Everything installed OK, permissons as far as I'm concerned are set up correctly. When I try to test it but going to the froogle.php it comes back with:

 

Error when connecting itself to the data base

 

I have checked the DB name, User Name & password but alas still not working. Have I missed something silly. Is there meant to be a file route to the database?

 

Regards

Martyn

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Check that the details are EXACTLY the same as those in /includes/configure.php

 

Cheers

John

[Guest]

Great contribution. I had some difficulty with the path names at first, believe I have those fixed, but, I am still getting the following error:

 

Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /home/sweetd73/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/classes/feed.php on line 185

 

The funny thing is, it created the file and even uploaded to froogle, with the same error, seams to have worked otherwise.

 

I do have the resize images turned off.

 

here is the code for feed.php around line 185

function checkimage ($imagename) {  
 if (!is_dir($this->feedimagepath)) { @mkdir($this->feedimagepath,0777); @chmod($this->feedimagepath,0777); }
 $image = $this->imagepath . $imagename; $newimage = $this->feedimagepath . $imagename;  
 $size = getimagesize($image);
    $width  = $size[0];
    $height = $size[1];
    $type   = $size[2];
    switch ($type) {
    case 1:

 

Thank you for your help

[Guest]

Great contribution. I had some difficulty with the path names at first, believe I have those fixed, but, I am still getting the following error:

 

Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /home/sweetd73/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/classes/feed.php on line 185

 

The funny thing is, it created the file and even uploaded to froogle, with the same error, seams to have worked otherwise.

 

I do have the resize images turned off.

 

here is the code for feed.php around line 185

function checkimage ($imagename) { ?
?if (!is_dir($this->feedimagepath)) { @mkdir($this->feedimagepath,0777); @chmod($this->feedimagepath,0777); }
?$image = $this->imagepath . $imagename; $newimage = $this->feedimagepath . $imagename; ?
?$size = getimagesize($image);
? ? $width ?= $size[0];
? ? $height = $size[1];
? ? $type ? = $size[2];
? ? switch ($type) {
? ? case 1:

 

Thank you for your help

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Should I comment this line out completly? I uploaded to froogle, they accepted the file... no errors... contribution worked great. So I don't think I need this line...or do I?

 

Thanx

[MartynMoore]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm getting there bit by bit and now have finally got it outputting to my txt file but it is skipping letters as below:

 

 

Gogeous ich peal desig hai bad. Made with highest quality Swaovski Austia Cystals.

 

&

 

All items come i thei ow gold ogaza daw stig bag with tissue

 

It seems to be the letter 'R' and 'N'

 

Any help would be fantastic.

 

Martyn

[♥kymation]

Look for this code around line 88 of froogle.php. It looks like the backslashes got deleted out of your copy.

    '%[\r\n]+%m'); // remove CRs and newlines

 

Regards

Jim

[MartynMoore]

Look for this code around line 88 of froogle.php. It looks like the backslashes got deleted out of your copy.

 ? ?'%[\r\n]+%m'); // remove CRs and newlines

 

Regards

Jim

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Hi,

 

Thanks for your help. You were right the Backslashes were not there. I have now corrected this but alas I still have the same problem. See below:

 

All items come i thei ow gold ogaza daw stig bag with tissue.t0.00t

 

I also think the price part is incorrect.

 

Anymore help would agin be appreciated.

 

Martyn :(

[♥kymation]

I suggest that you start over with a fresh copy of the file. Edit it with a text editor and upload via FTP. Don't use any type of on-line editor, as many of these will strip out the slashes.

 

Regards

Jim

[PopTheTop]

I just noticed something when I did a search for a particular product and noticed that the price was incorrect.

 

If you go to http://www.google.com/froogle?q=Van-Pan&btnG=Search+Froogle you will see my product listed at the very top for $149.95.

 

That is the catalog price, but it is on Special for $139.95 so it needs to list the Special price, not the catalog price.

 

How can i change this to display the Special price if it has one and the catalog price if not?

[Guest]

Great contribution. I had some difficulty with the path names at first, believe I have those fixed, but, I am still getting the following error:

 

Warning: getimagesize(): Read error! in /home/sweetd73/public_html/catalog/admin/includes/classes/feed.php on line 185

 

The funny thing is, it created the file and even uploaded to froogle, with the same error, seams to have worked otherwise.

 

I do have the resize images turned off.

 

here is the code for feed.php around line 185

function checkimage ($imagename) {  
 if (!is_dir($this->feedimagepath)) { @mkdir($this->feedimagepath,0777); @chmod($this->feedimagepath,0777); }
 $image = $this->imagepath . $imagename; $newimage = $this->feedimagepath . $imagename;  
 $size = getimagesize($image);
    $width  = $size[0];
    $height = $size[1];
    $type   = $size[2];
    switch ($type) {
    case 1:

 

Thank you for your help

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Any idea's on how to stop this error yet?

 

Thanx