Instant Cafe Forums

[AdamIC]

Available Settings:

Setting Position : Setting Name | Setting Command Value:

1: Search Feed Type | STORE or MARKETPLACE (1 or 2) **numeric**

2: Store ID | ex. snoopystore **alphanumeric**

3: Keyword | ex. snakes+on+a+plane **alphanumeric**

4: Feed Filename | ex. feed **alphanumeric**

5: Feed Filetype | ex. txt or csv or xml **alphanumeric**

6: Product Types | (leave blank or all) or use ex. 0,1,152 **numeric,comma seperated list).**
Get product number list from: www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/products/viewall

7: Feed Sort | BEST SELLERS or DATE DESC (1 or 2) **numeric**

8: Feed Stop at | ex. 10 **numeric**

9: Feed Delimiter | TAB or PIPE or CSV (1 or 2 or 3) **numeric**

10. End When Done | TRUE of FALSE (1 or 0) **numeric**
Closes application when feed is complete.

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HOW TO USE:

Make a shortcut for Instant Cafe Feeder on your desktop.
Right click properties.
Edit the Target box.
Add the command to the end of the path like so:

"C:Documents and SettingsAdamDesktopicfeeder.exe" 2||chrismas ornaments|xmasorn|txt|124,105|1|50|1|1

This will make a TAB delimited file which contains christmas ornaments from the marketplace. A search for the keyword christmas ornaments will be used to pull back the products. Only product types 124 and 105 will be included. It will just make a feed for the top 50 best sellers and close the application when done.[/i]

[charpaula]

I'm not sure how many of you are using this or even realize it exists. I use ICF to create data feeds for my affiliate sites. I build multiple variable strings and create an ICF scheduled task for each one. Why? I run the tasks at night - so in the morning there are all the data feeds waiting for me. BTW, I also use the capabilities built into ICF to create additional data fields...less work in cleaning up the data feed

Need an example? I have Windows scheduled tasks on my quick launch task bar.

Before I head off to bed I go thru and create all the scheduled tasks

"C:Program Files1 Jump 2Instant Cafe Feedericfeeder.exe" 2||baby|baby|csv|190|1|300|2|1

Creates a data feed of 300 records named baby, keyword baby of maternity wear

I have feeds set to run every 20 minutes or so with different keywords, different filenames and different products

In the morning - I have all the data feeds ready to be cleaned up and processed

The command line parameter is such an absolutely cool feature

Thank you Adam:)