Google Merchant Product Feed not Accepting my Feed

Question

I am working with the GData api to import products to my merchant feed. The code is as follows:

List<ProductEntry> newEntries = new List<ProductEntry>();
                    foreach (Product prod in ent.Products.Where(i => !i.IsDeleted && i.IsDisplayed && i.Price > 0))
                    {
                        newEntries.Add(prod.GetNewEntry());
                    }
                    string GoogleUsername = "nope@gmail.com";
                    string GooglePassword = "*****";
                    ContentForShoppingService service = new ContentForShoppingService("MY STORE");
                    service.setUserCredentials(GoogleUsername, GooglePassword);
                    service.AccountId = "*******";
                    service.ShowWarnings = true;
                    ProductFeed pf = service.InsertProducts(newEntries);
                    r.Write(pf.Entries.Count.ToString());

This code is returning to me 1 entry, rather than the 400+ it should, and that 1 entry is empty with no error or warning info. Nothing shows on my merchant center dash. Any ideas on what might be occurring here?

OR - how can I get more details on what is going on?

Answer 1

• First of all create a service account on Google Developers Console if you don't have one already.

• NuGet package Google.Apis.ShoppingContent.v2

after you do whats mentioned on the link you'll get

• a ClientId

• a ClientSecret

those we will be using to authenticate.

 var credentials = GoogleWebAuthorizationBroker.AuthorizeAsync(
                new ClientSecrets() { 
                    ClientId = "yourclientid", 
                    ClientSecret = "yourclientsecret" },
                new string[] { ShoppingContentService.Scope.Content },
                "user",
                CancellationToken.None).Result;

  //make this a global variable or just make sure you pass it to InsertProductBatch or any function that needs to use it
  service = new ShoppingContentService(new BaseClientService.Initializer()
        {
            HttpClientInitializer = credentials,
            ApplicationName = "Your-app-name"
        });

Now for the insert part:

private async Task<List<Product>> InsertProductBatch(IEnumerable<Product> products, ulong merchantaccountid)
        {
            // Create a batch request.
            BatchRequest request = new BatchRequest(service);

            List<Product> responseproducts = new List<Product>();

            foreach (var p in products)
            {
                ProductsResource.InsertRequest insertRequest =
                    service.Products.Insert(p, merchantaccountid);
                request.Queue<Product>(
                         insertRequest,
                         (content, error, index, message) =>
                         {

                             responseproducts.Add(content);
                             //ResponseProducts.Add(content);

                             if (content != null)
                             {
                                 //product inserted successfully
                             }
                             AppendLine(String.Format("Product inserted with id {0}", ((Product)content).Id));

                             if (error != null)
                             {
                                 //there is an error you can access the error message though error.Message
                             }

                         });

            }

            await request.ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken.None);
            return responseproducts;
        }

And thats all to it.