But there is another big advantage in downloading the data. It means that we can reorganise it and use it as a feed for classified advertising feeds such as Oodle.
I spent today understanding the Oodle data format and then massaging the Shopify data into the right format. Oodle should handle all the resizing of images and the main job was creating the URLs so that each product (classified ad) has a direct link into The Market Quarter.
Handles are a nice feature in Shopify and they can be seen in the URLs of products such as www.marketquarter.com/products/3-fine-pates-with-foie-gras. The "3 fine pates with foie gras" are the handle. The handles themselves are exported as part the Shopify product data and to make them useful to Ooodle I had to rebuild the whole URL. It was easy using a mixture of Numbers and Text Wrangler.
Within an hour I had my Oodle feed ready and it has now been submitted to Oodle. Watch this space for news of its success.
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