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Submitted on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 17:21
mimetic2
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Hi,

Google Base or Google Products is a no brainer! How much would it cost to do automatic feed generation.

Or how much to sponsor the ubercool team to make a uberfeed generator?

Cheers!

#1 Submitted on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 22:12 Top View page
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I am interested in donating as well.

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#2 Submitted on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 20:12 Top View page
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Ryan...

Possible quote?

#3 Submitted on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 09:20 Top View page
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I dunno man... do you have a link to any docs showing the feed construction? I mean, a module that just formats an RSS feed would only take a few hours and be somewhere around $200. Last I looked around Google, you actually had to use the Google Base API to send products and send updates to existing products... something like that would just take longer to work out the kinks... probably even up to a few full days' work which I'd price around $800-1200.

#4 Submitted on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 17:41 Top View page
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Ryan,

It wouldnt need to actually send the products to google base. You would just need to make the feed. So basically a product export.

here is a list of their requirements:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=73932&hl=en

it says you can use RSS 2.0 but i think using TXT tab delimited would give you more information. With all that, what are you thinking for a price quote?

#5 Submitted on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 22:13 Top View page
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* BUMP * for ryan!

EDIT: just to be clear, all you would need to do is export Ubercarts Products into a table. Then add certain dimensions. The main thing though is price, description (stripped of html), product name, and the taxonomy that its placed under.

#6 Submitted on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 23:06 Top View page
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I've been using an RSS module to do this, which I've uploaded here: http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/1975. Hope this is usable for someone else.

#7 Submitted on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 01:58 Top View page
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Thanks J! This is big! I'll definitely check it out. Ryan- How hard would it be to convert XML To CSV? Or to skip the xml and go straight to CSV?

#8 Submitted on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 09:49 Top View page
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@mimetic2 - I'm not really sure how much work would be involved. I haven't looked at the schemas to know what is different, so again it could be a simple affair or it could take several hours. Puzzled Sorry, it's just not something I can research more atm.