Dear all...
I have one simple question about PT... This script have the capability or exist any mod to do "auto crawl" from merchant web sites????
Best Regards
Jony
Ok... I understand that...
I only ask because i'm study somo price comparison scripts and i see one where they say all updates are made automactly during the night, so what i understand after you register one merchant and if they don't whant supply a feed you can auto auto crawl the merchant site to keep the products updated... Its a very interesting idea...
So my final question is...
For example, i have one merchant with a store with 1000 products but they only gave me a feed with 100 Products, for example if they change the prices all days exist any mechanism to read and update the prices from articles on supplyed feed directly from merchant site, with this you avoid update the feed all the days, and with this you can have sure you have allways the prices updated...
The other question is i have 4 merchants selling the same product...
Example:
1 - Hertz HCX130 - Hertz Speakers, 120W
2 - HCX130 - Coaxial Speakers, 5-1/4", 120W
3 - Coaxial Hertz Speaker HCX-130, 120W
4 - HCX-130, Coaxial speaker, 5-1/4", 120 Watts
The names are different, like you can see, but what is necessary to place this for descriptions from 4 different merchants on same comparison, The name is different but the products is the same...
Sorry for all this questions, i'm trying to investigating some thinks, and i need to see how this works
If you can reply to both questions it's very nice...
Best Regards
Jony
Hello Jony,
Regarding a limited feed, you would need to obtain a feed with all products in order for it to work with Price Tapestry. This is because the feed filename is the index into the database for that particular merchant, so when you import an updated feed the first thing that happens is all existing products from that feed are DELETED, and the feed re-imported. This is by far the most efficient way to do it, rather than try to update every product etc. which will soon result in the product database becoming out of sync with the merchant's website. In this situation, I would contact the merchant and see if it is possible to obtain a complete feed, as it is of course in their interests in order to be featured on your site!
Regarding the merchants with different product names, yes this is supported by the Product Mapping feature. You can provide a "master" product name, and then on the alternatives page provide all the different versions of that product name that you would like to be imported with that master name. See the following page for further info...
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/1547
Cheers,
David.
Hi Jony,
It's not a feature or mod i'm afraid - Price Tapestry is designed to work with product feeds from merchants that provide one in association with an existing affiliate scheme.
Cheers,
David.