Please note that this extension is provided as is. It is recommended to always backup your installation prior to use.
Overview
Google Content API for Shopping
Google has retired its old Google Base Data API and replaced it with its new Google Content API for Shopping to let back-end staff more effectively upload and manage product and catalog information. This extension allows developers to migrate their eCommerce stores into the new API to ensure that they come up in Google searches.
Replaces current Google Base API logic in Magento
Allows developers to define which products are sent to Google
Enables definition of how product attributes are mapped to Google
Starting this year, Google has launched new Shopping APIs that will replace Google Base Data API for shopping use cases.
Google Base Data API will be fully retired on June 1, 2011 and merchants using Base API to upload products to Google should migrate to new Content API till that time. 

This extension covers the new Content API logic and it is designed for managing merchant item being uploaded to Google Base — in Magento it will simply replace the current Google Base API logic.
Starting this year, Google has launched new Shopping APIs that will replace Google Base Data API for shopping use cases.
Google Base Data API will be fully retired on June 1, 2011 and merchants using Base API to upload products to Google should migrate to new Content API till that time.
This extension covers the new Content API logic and it is designed for managing merchant item being uploaded to Google Base — in Magento it will simply replace the current Google Base API logic.
Starting this year, Google has launched new Shopping APIs that will replace Google Base Data API for shopping use cases.
Google Base Data API will be fully retired on June 1, 2011 and merchants using Base API to upload products to Google should migrate to new Content API till that time.
This extension covers the new Content API logic and it is designed for managing merchant item being uploaded to Google Base — in Magento it will simply replace the current Google Base API logic.
OMG!!!
I just installed this on my magento 1.7 install. When trying to access my site afterwards I just got an error page saying:
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later"
Luckly I managed to go back to Magento Connect Manager, the only bit of my site left working, and removed the extension.
I'm now wondering how I'm going to get my products to appear on google with magento, its not looking like such a wise choice any more :-(
June 5, 2013
Everything is out of stock...
Extension is promising. But if you give something to community, why don't you write 1 page instructions?
It looks simple but there are major flaws. If you don't want to cry for days, buy an extension. Because you will spend days till you solve your problems.
Beware: Configurable products will be out of stock. There is no way to prevent that... So it is pointless to use this extension for configurable product stores such as clothing stores.
May 30, 2013
Definite Shortcomings
This extension installed fine for me, but I cannot get the products to sync up to google shopping.
There are no errors generated, and there is no support for this module without buying a support contract.
Also, if you want to add static values for any of the mappings to google, that isn't a feature that is available in this module. The alternative is adding a new attribute to all of your products and assigning it a value, which is a lot of unnecessary work.
Also, if you want to find documentation for google base, there is some that is on the magento go website, but other than that, it's forums.
April 29, 2013
Real Big Issue
I have been using this extension for months but now it just gives the error message "One or more google shopping synchronization operations failed because of timeout." i cant add more than 8 products at a time, not great when you have 4000 products to submit.
i have tried all the solutions i can find and still not working
Does any one know a solution for this?
April 15, 2013
Error : Google Content ID or Not Sync yet
Hi
I have installed the extension as described by one of my friend and setup google merchant for it.
Extension installed successfully
In Attribute I added Price, Description and Title
When selected products from "Manage Item" and added to Google Content which was also a successful step.
No issue i am facing here when I submit for Synchronise it does it successfully and i recv following email
"Product synchronization with Google Shopping completed
Total of 0 items(s) have been deleted; total of 1 items(s) have been updated."
Now, I can not see anything happening, all product are still in "Google Content Items" and my products do not have Google Content ID yet.
Please let me know if i have done something or missed any step
Awaiting your reply
Regards
KAHU
April 7, 2013
image not imported to google shopping
all is fine and exported well without images and i cant find image attribute on manage shopping attribute mapping.. how to assign image link ?
Thank you
April 3, 2013
Nice Extension
Thank you for this useful extension.
Just one problem, the product image is not posted, I read the instruction, it says image_link should be default attribute? but its just not showing in Google merchant.
March 31, 2013
Horrible
I installed it on Magento 1.7.0 and I lost Google Checkout functionality completely. There is no google checkout button at all. Not to mention that none of the products was able to export to google. I have no idea what to do now... No support as well.
March 21, 2013
Works as advertised
You have to know what you're doing, unfortunately, but it works well. Setup:
1) Create your Google Merchant Account: http://www.google.com/merchants/default - Then copy your Account ID, email address and password into step 2. Verify and Claim your site, add shipping and tax rules in Google.
2) System/Configuration/Shopping/Google API - Fill in the blanks.
3) Catalog/Google Content/Manage Attributes - Map at least your Name, Description, and Price
4) Catalog/Google Content/Manage Items - Add your items.
If it fails, read the error messages at the top of your Magento store.
March 18, 2013
Poor documentation and difficult setup
Getting my Magento store products onto Google merchant , google shopping has been the single most over complicated experience in all of my working with Magento. This extension is significantly better than other options, but it is so poorly documented that it is infuriating.
Some of this problem is not the devleopers, but Google's problem, their merchant center is the slowest, most poorly supported Google Product I have ever used.
I had to make a number of changes to our Robots.txt file to allow Google to spider our site, and after that, it finally accepted one out of 40 products, that are nearly identical except for size variations.
The sync and review process are crazy slow.
Also it should be more clearly document in the extension, not so lost pdf the process for setting up mappings. We sell industrial products that do not have UPC or EAN codes, so creating strong identifies had to happen before we could use this.
March 5, 2013
I've been using your Google Content API extension from its early days, quite happy with it. However, when I installed its latest version on Magento v1.7.0.1, I'm getting this "...Unable to connect to Google Content. Please, check Account settings in configuration.Error: Authentication with Google failed. Reason: BadAuthentication" error although all account settings are correctly set in config. Do you know anything about this problem?
I think it is worth mentioning that I've been able to add products to Google Shopping using that same Google account but using different extension (which actually uses an online service for submitting to google and other comparison shopping sites), so I don't think the problem might be in the Google account itself.
Any help or insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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I've been using your Google Content API extension from its early days, quite happy with it. However, when I installed its latest version on Magento v1.7.0.2, I'm getting this "...Unable to connect to Google Content. Please, check Account settings in configuration.Error: Authentication with Google failed. Reason: BadAuthentication" error although all account settings are correctly set in config. Do you know anything about this problem?
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Why is it no possible to choose "Custom" under the Google Attribute set mapping.
I now can only select from this list:
Apparel & Accessories Apparel & Accessories - Clothing Apparel & Accessories - Shoes Media - Books Media - DVDs & Videos Media - Music Software - Video Game Software Other
However Google also has a group Custom for custom made products that don't need to contain any id's (UPC, EAN, JAN or MPN).
My problem now is that when I sync, my products in Google Shop, it gives me error's back because the Id's are not valid.
Is there any solution to fix this or is there a workaround ?
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I have been trying to get this google shopping extension to work for days now. I am now getting the code below in my log file. Has anyone ran into this on CE 1.7.0.2?
Any advise or hacks on fixing this?
2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePrice.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePrice.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/magento/html/app/code/local:/home/magento/html/app/code/community:/home/magento/html/app/code/core:/home/magento/html/lib:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePriceEffectiveDateFrom.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePriceEffectiveDateFrom.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/magento/html/app/code/local:/home/magento/html/app/code/community:/home/magento/html/app/code/core:/home/magento/html/lib:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePriceEffectiveDateTo.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/SalePriceEffectiveDateTo.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/magento/html/app/code/local:/home/magento/html/app/code/community:/home/magento/html/app/code/core:/home/magento/html/lib:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/Name.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/Name.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/magento/html/app/code/local:/home/magento/html/app/code/community:/home/magento/html/app/code/core:/home/magento/html/lib:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/Description.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93 2013-03-18T19:09:30+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include(): Failed opening 'Mage/GoogleShopping/Model/Attribute/Description.php' for inclusion (include_path='/home/magento/html/app/code/local:/home/magento/html/app/code/community:/home/magento/html/app/code/core:/home/magento/html/lib:.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /home/magento/html/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93
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