Custom XML Feed

How to Set Up

1. Set the URL of your XML feed.

2. Set Items Path - the XPath to the root element of the items records

3. Set Item ID Path - Path (relative to the items path) to the element that contains the itemId. If your IDs contain some special characters, enable the MD5 Item IDs option (see this section for more details).

4. The feed gets processed and a list of properties that were recognized in the feed is presented in the Suggested properties section. You can pick from this list the properties that you want to synchronize to Recombee.

   You can also create a custom new property and set an XPath for it (relative to the item entry). This is needed especially in the case of large .zip feeds which cannot be fully processed in this step to obtain the suggested properties.

5. Continue to Preview and check that you are getting expected data for all the properties. When you are satisfied, confirm the settings and the feed will get scheduled for processing.

For information about handling items deletion and updating items availability see Handling of removed items.

Tips & Tricks

• Arrays in XML: if we have set item property categories and we want to fill its data, we need to define multiple fields with the same ID inside item entry. It's relative path is /categories. It will correctly process and assign 3 values to the property.

  <item>
    <categories>Drama</categories>
    <categories>Horror</categories>
    <categories>Thriller</categories>
  </item>