Other than the froogle feed tool for BV5, are there any other tools for the other sites like shopping.com, shopzilla, etc? Looking for a tool(s) that does all the product sites for BV5 and BV2004...


Thanks,

Bryan

Hi Bryan,

We actually have something for in house use that handles, pricegrabber, shopping.com, nextag, and shopzilla. However, it is fairly hard coded to what we use. If the interest is large enough we may be willing to modify it so it could be used with most stores.

What I do is take the froogle feed data and simply paste it into an Excel speadsheet and with a few changes it's ready to use in Shopzilla.

Thanks for the great tip Roberto - I've been looking at these services lately - are you happy with GoDataFeed?

I have a class that is specifically designed to publish feeds in a very easy way. I was about to release it as a product but had no time to write any doco:
The usage however is extremly simple. Create a new aspx page that you will use to publish the feed.
In it's Page_Load add your code that will expose the feed in the format they specify:

This is an example from one of my feeds:
Dim allProducts As Collection(Of Catalog.Product) = Catalog.InternalProduct.FindAll()

Dim feed As New FeedBuilder(Of Catalog.Product, HttpResponseWriter)(Request, New HttpResponseWriter(Response))

feed.AddValueColumn("Category", "Toys and Games")
feed.AddValueColumn("ISBN", "")
feed.AddValueColumn("GTIN", "")
feed.AddFunctionColumn("Manufacturer", New GetValueDelegate(Of Catalog.Product)(AddressOf GetManufactured)).AddQuotes = True
feed.AddValueColumn("Model", "")
feed.AddPropColumn("Merchant Product Code", "bvin")
feed.AddPropColumn("Product Name", "ProductName")
feed.AddPropColumn("Product Description", "ShortDescription").AddQuotes = True
feed.AddFunctionColumn("Product URL", "{0}?camp=shopferret", New GetValueDelegate(Of Catalog.Product)(AddressOf GetProductUrl))
feed.AddFunctionColumn("Product Image URL", New GetValueDelegate(Of Catalog.Product)(AddressOf GetImageUrl))
feed.AddValueColumn("Stock", "Y")
feed.AddFunctionColumn("Price", New GetValueDelegate(Of Catalog.Product)(AddressOf GetProductPrice))
feed.Build(allProducts)

Basically the FeedBuilder can build columns for any property of the Product or support delegates to external function to support stuff like mapping of manufacturer name, calculate of the shipping costs for each product, or custom formatting of the URLs to add extra loggable parameters.
The addin comes as one DLL and one helper class that has most of the functions you would need and a bunch of examples.
Price $50 for the FeedBuilder / store.
If you don't feel like writing 10-20 lines of code I'll implement feeds for you if you have the specs for $50 for each feed you need :)

Contact via: www.acorns.com.au or Corneliu / acorns.com.au

Regards,
Corneliu.