insert the catalog on price comparison site

Hi,
I'd like to insert my products catalog on some internet site.
They ask me a link to download my catalog CVS by the crawler.
How can i do?

www.ilpiubasso.it asked me the URL of a file datafeed of my products.
What is this? How can I do?

There is no such feed in HikaShop.

what a shame!
At least it's planning to do it?

You're the first one requesting that so it's not in the plans.
We'll add that to the todo list but as a low priority for now.

What are others to enter in the free search engines for online shopping?

I don't know. I suppose that most users focus on Google search results and we have a specific plugin for it so that your products data is sent to google.

just to try.
What's the plugin?

What about the "Export" function from HikaShop Products? Could that CSV be posted on lacasetta's site and manually updated when needed?

@lacasetta :
this one: www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...google-products.html

@spoonbow :
yes, manually you can do that. export your products CSV and upload it somewhere on your website and give the link to it to your search engines.

spoonbow wrote: What about the "Export" function from HikaShop Products? Could that CSV be posted on lacasetta's site and manually updated when needed?

The Export file is not what the site want. I had already tried but it does not work.
There are some datas missing and other more.

Hi I tried but google give me some error on datafeed file (sorry but it is in italian):



Riepilogo stato del feed per catalogo.xml

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Caricato in data 26-feb-2012 7.58 CET
0 articoli su 29 inseriti - Elaborato il 26-feb-2012 7.58 CET
Destinazioni: Product Ads, Product Search, Search API for Shopping

Metodo di immissione: Caricamento manuale
Dimensioni totali file: 40.50 kB
Formato di file rilevato: XML
Fuso orario predefinito per le date: GMT+01:00
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Questo valore deve corrispondere a uno dei valori indicati nelle istruzioni per i feed di dati relative all'attributo: condition (29 errori)

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ID articolo Num. riga Valore
3 19 nuovo Mostra articolo
21 89 nuovo Mostra articolo
57 143 nuovo Mostra articolo
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32 468 nuovo Mostra articolo

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L'attributo "shipping" risulta mancante. (29 avvisi)
Specifica il metodo di spedizione nell'attributo "shipping" o in Google Merchant Center. Il requisito entrerà in vigore a partire da settembre 2011.
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ID articolo Num. riga
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22 97 Mostra articolo
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48 255 Mostra articolo
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Attributo consigliato mancante: brand (29 avvisi)
Gli articoli per cui mancano attributi consigliati verranno elaborati correttamente, ma è opportuno inserire gli attributi pertinenti, se disponibili.
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Attributo consigliato mancante: mpn (29 avvisi)
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Attributo consigliato mancante: google product category (29 avvisi)
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Attributo consigliato mancante: image link (1 avviso)
Gli articoli per cui mancano attributi consigliati verranno elaborati correttamente, ma è opportuno inserire gli attributi pertinenti, se disponibili.
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ID articolo Num. riga
60 188 Mostra articolo

The problem is that the CSV format of HikaShop and the CSV format of your search engine are not the same. That would require customization of the view generating the CSV to adapt to the format of the engine.
So not easy to do.

I forgot to tell you that was the google products plugin on google merchants.
So the CVS format of Hikashop must be correct without adapt to the format!

Second problem: I had Enabled Auto Upldate. But there wasn't any update. I sent the catalog manually.
My cron was set on when I enabled my wait list.

Could you try to get the error messages in English ?
Normally, you should be able to do that in google merchant.

It is not a CSV which is generated by that plugin but a XML file. That's why I thought that you were talking about the export of products.

If you want the auto update, you need to fill the FTP username and password fields of the plugin with the corresponding information of your google merchant account.

Ok, now it is in english:

Feed status summary for catalogo.xml




Feed details


Uploaded on 26-Feb-2012 07:58 CET
0 of 29 items inserted - Processed on 26-Feb-2012 07:58 CET
Destinations: Product Ads, Product Search, Search API for Shopping

Input Method: Manual Upload
Total File Size: 40.50 KB
Detected file format: XML
Default timezone for dates: GMT+01:00
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26-Feb-2012 07:58 CET - 0 of 29 items inserted
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Item Errors 29 items affected





This value must be one of the values stated in the data feed instructions for attribute: condition (29 errors)






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Missing 'shipping' attribute. (29 warnings)





Delivery method must be specified either in the 'shipping' attribute or in Google Merchant Center. Requirement will be enforced starting in September 2011.
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Missing recommended attribute: mpn (29 warnings)





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Missing recommended attribute: google product category (29 warnings)





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Missing recommended attribute: image link (1 warning)





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For the auto update I had already filled username and password fields of the plugin.

In the "condition" option of the plugin, you should put one of the valid conditions of Google product:
support.google.com/merchants/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=160606

You should also configure your shipping information in your google merchant account.

Then, it should work properly.

Now the product are awaiting rewiev (from 2 days) and plus there are these warning:
Feed status summary for catalogo.xml




Feed details


Uploaded on 01-Mar-2012 12:35 CET
29 of 29 items inserted - Processed on 01-Mar-2012 12:35 CET
Destinations: Product Ads, Product Search, Search API for Shopping

Input Method: Manual Upload
Total File Size: 40.85 KB
Detected file format: XML
Default timezone for dates: GMT+01:00
Download feed



Recent uploads

01-Mar-2012 12:35 CET - 29 of 29 items inserted
26-Feb-2012 07:58 CET - 0 of 29 items inserted
26-Feb-2012 07:49 CET - 0 of 29 items inserted
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Item Warnings 105 items affected





Missing recommended attribute: brand (29 warnings)





While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:



Item ID

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58

152

Show Item



2

242

Show Item



48

256

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28

301

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49

320

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Missing recommended attribute: mpn (29 warnings)





While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:



Item ID

Line No.




59

172

Show Item



55

334

Show Item



51

403

Show Item



32

458

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73

477

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Missing recommended attribute: google product category (29 warnings)





While items missing recommended attributes will process successfully, we recommend including relevant attributes if they are available.
Examples:



Item ID

Line No.




3

8

Show Item



60

189

Show Item



41

223

Show Item



50

273

Show Item



45

353

Show Item





Missing 'shipping' attribute. (17 warnings)





Delivery method must be specified either in the 'shipping' attribute or in Google Merchant Center. Requirement will be enforced starting in September 2011.
Examples:



Item ID

Line No.




6

26

Show Item



21

79

Show Item



25

117

Show Item



59

172

Show Item



29

205

Show Item

For the auto update I had already filled username and password fields of the plugin.

These are just warnings. You can ignore them.


Note that it's the FTP username and password that you need to use, not the normal username and password of your google merchant account.
If the cron is working, that the FTP credentials are correct and that the file is valid when you do it manually, the auto update should work if the plugin is published.