Auto generating Google Base Feed
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 8:15 am
Google Base feeds provides an option to setup a schedule to read your Google Base feeds instead of uploading them. It is very handy because it frees you from manual upload burden. In order to utilize this facility one must keep their Google Base product feed somewhere public on website. At the moment AbleCommerce allows you to generate feeds under Website/App_Data folder. This is ASP.NET special folder and is not available publicly. It means after generating Google Base feed merchant has to upload this manually. Actually this is discussed in another thread where people were asking for a way to change feed output path from App_Data to somewhere public. I posted a workaround in this thread viewtopic.php?f=42&t=14539
Here in this post I am about to extend Google Base feed generator to be more powerful by allowing automatic feed generation. This means your Google Base feeds will be always up to date without needing you to generate them manually. After installing this mod you will find one GoogleBaseFeed.txt document generated in Website/Feeds folder which will be available publicly. This feed document will be updated every 6 hours. You can then configure your Google Base merchant account to schedule feed update by providing URL to this feed document. This way your feeds will be always up to date without needing you to generate them and secondly you will not be required to upload, Google Base will automatically pick the feed according to your defined schedule.
In order to install the mod, download Website.zip file. Extract and upload the contents of website folder to your store's website root.
Here in this post I am about to extend Google Base feed generator to be more powerful by allowing automatic feed generation. This means your Google Base feeds will be always up to date without needing you to generate them manually. After installing this mod you will find one GoogleBaseFeed.txt document generated in Website/Feeds folder which will be available publicly. This feed document will be updated every 6 hours. You can then configure your Google Base merchant account to schedule feed update by providing URL to this feed document. This way your feeds will be always up to date without needing you to generate them and secondly you will not be required to upload, Google Base will automatically pick the feed according to your defined schedule.
In order to install the mod, download Website.zip file. Extract and upload the contents of website folder to your store's website root.