Onboarding Guide

File formats for product information

Side by side: Create a feed

File formats for product data [Hero image]

Once you've created a feed, you'll add your product data to it by uploading a data feed. Nosotros currently support information feeds in these formats:

Text (spreadsheet) or tab delimited

XML

File formats for product data | XML [infographic]

We support extended versions of RSS two.0 and Atom i.0. You tin create and edit these files using any text editor, such as Notepad or SimpleText. Similar HTML, XML uses tags to define blocks of content. Information most your products is enclosed inside these tags, which are indicated by bending brackets.

Advantages:

  • Your site may already generate an XML file of your content
  • Including multiple values for an attribute is easier

Disadvantages:

  • May require more tech-savviness
  • Hard to see many products at once

For example files click the appropriate XML format and download it. RSS ii.0 or Atom 1.

When creating your information feed, retrieve to salve your file in one of the supported file types with the advisable filename extension:

File formats for product data [infographic]

Annotation: XML is now officially supported for inventory feeds.

If you are scheduling your data feed, please ensure that the feed URL straight points to your feed file. If it points to your website instead, your product information volition be fetched in a HTML format which volition issue in a feed failure. The URL must begin with either http://, https://, ftp://, or sftp://. If your file requires a username and password to access, please enter the appropriate login information to allow Google to admission your file.

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