POD For You!

If you’ve been enjoying the new Google feeds from Zazzle, you may have noticed a change yesterday. Shopkeepers from the Zazzle forum began to report that their feeds were being limited to 100 products.

A Zazzle employee announced the following today:

Hi folks! Sorry for the delay in this response. Here’s what’s going on:

We have currently implemented a 100 product per feed limit on our servers for performance reasons. We were getting reports about incomplete feeds, or feeds timing out soon after we started promoting our new feed platform. This limit will remain in place until we can address the volume of requests more reliably.

As many of you have figured out, you can still generate more than 100 products by requesting multiple feeds in a paginated fashion. Use the pg parameter in the feed URL to specify which page of results to pull, and set the ps parameter to 100 to pull 100 products per page. Mousefx is correct.

I know we should have warned you about these changes earlier, and I apologize that it got pushed out without warning. Sometimes we have to react quickly, and unfortunately some things may fall through the cracks when that happens. This message was one of those things, and again, I apologize.

For now, rest assured that the feeds should no longer time out, and our feed server remains stable. Thank you for your understanding and patience in this matter.

You may view the entire discussion here in the Zazzle forum.