Google Merchant Feed

Format

• Specification: https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7052112?hl=en
• We support both .xml and .tsv (tab separated text file) variants. Both .zip and .gz compression is supported.
• In addition, we support .csv (comma separated) variant (not officially supported by Google)

Tips & Tricks

• You can use item property availability for filtering out from the recommendations the items that are not available anymore.

  The filter that should be passed to recommendation requests is:

  ReQL

  'availability' == "in stock"

  Only items in stock will be recommended. You can achieve this also by setting the predefined Filter Business Rule Items in stock [Google Merchant] to your Scenario.

• Ids of items are case sensitive - please check that you are using the same case as is used in the feed when you send interactions.

• You can use for example following JavaScript snippet to get recommended items along with their title, description, link, image link and price:

  JS

  client.send(new recombee.RecommendItemsToItem(itemId, userId, 3,
  {
  	returnProperties: true,
  	includedProperties: ['title', 'description', 'link', 'image_link', 'price'],
  	filter: "'availability' == \"in stock\"",
  	scenario: 'related_items'
  }),
  (err, resp) => {
  	if(err) {
  		console.log("Could not load recomms: ", err);
  		return;
  	}
  
  	console.log(resp);
  
  	// Show recommendations
  });

For more info see the JavaScript library.