The RSS XML format will parse just fine, and includes defined fields suitable for product name (TITLE), description (DESCRIPTION) and Buy URL (LINK) however your feed would need some way of providing the product price which would normally be through a custom field however I have come across product feeds in RSS format in which the price is included in the description, and as long as this is consistent then it can be extracted with filters.
For example, if a feed in RSS format has the description:
"A fine Blue Widget! £1.99"
...then you could register the description field for _both_ Description and Price. After registration, click Filters and add an Explode filter to both the Description and Price fields using "&" as the Explode Character or String, and 0 as the return index for the Description and 1 as the return index for the Price.
If the price is consistently displayed in some other way and you're not sure how to extract it using filters if you could post a couple of examples i'll check it out for you...
Hi,
The RSS XML format will parse just fine, and includes defined fields suitable for product name (TITLE), description (DESCRIPTION) and Buy URL (LINK) however your feed would need some way of providing the product price which would normally be through a custom field however I have come across product feeds in RSS format in which the price is included in the description, and as long as this is consistent then it can be extracted with filters.
For example, if a feed in RSS format has the description:
"A fine Blue Widget! £1.99"
...then you could register the description field for _both_ Description and Price. After registration, click Filters and add an Explode filter to both the Description and Price fields using "&" as the Explode Character or String, and 0 as the return index for the Description and 1 as the return index for the Price.
If the price is consistently displayed in some other way and you're not sure how to extract it using filters if you could post a couple of examples i'll check it out for you...
Cheers,
David.
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