Download URL Help

To obtain the download URL of a feed in a format suitable for Datafeed Studio follow these Step By Step instructions for each supported affiliate network.

Affiliate Future URL Help

  1. Log into the Affiliate Future website admin interface
  2. Choose Interactive Tools->Xenon Data from the side menu
  3. Click on the 'Request a Feed' button
  4. Choose CSV as the File Format and 'Products on a single row' for the Category format
  5. Select the merchant you want for the Content
  6. Select 'Download data file online' as the Download Method
  7. Press the 'Request Feed' button to generate the file
  8. Refresh the page until the feed is available to Download
  9. When the Download links appears, right click and copy the address. This is your feed URL for Datafeed Studio.

Affiliate Window Create-A-Feed URL Help

  1. Log into the Affiliate Window website admin interface
  2. Click on "Create-a-Feed" in the "Web Service & Tools" option of the "My Account" tab (right hand side)
  3. Click the 'select merchants' option and find the (single) merchant you want to get a feed for. Make sure the Download checkbox is set and then click 'Save'
  4. You should now see the number of products updated. Click on 'next'.
  5. The Datafeed Column Selection should be set to 'Custom Format', with the following columns
  6. Set the datafeed format to 'CSV', field delimiter to 'pipe' and compression type to 'gzip'. Set the Content Level to whatever you want.
  7. The Datafeed Download URL is now ready to be used in Datafeed Studio and should resemble something like :
    http://datafeed.api.productserve.com/datafeed/download/apikey/
    a24d44fa99d184e7c60c385797dad766/mid/1234/columns/merchant_id,
    merchant_name,aw_product_id,merchant_product_id,product_name,description,category_id,category_name,me
    rchant_category,aw_deep_link,aw_image_url,search_price,delivery_cost,
    merchant_deep_link,merchant_image_url/format/csv/delimiter/|/compression/gzip/		
    		

BuyAt URL Help

  1. Log into the BuyAt website admin interface
  2. Click on "Content and Creative" from the left-hand menu
  3. Now click on "Product Feeds"
  4. From the "Options" menu select "Pipe Delimited (Uncompressed)" as the download format
  5. Now simply right-click on the name of a merchant in the datafeed list and copy the link URL to your clipboard
  6. Paste the link URL into the URL form field in the Datafeed Studio screen
  7. Your finished URL should resemble something like :
    http://b1.perfb.com/productfeed_download_v31.php?OEMAIL=you%40email.com&
    PX=FEED-23bf286c325388d44792029fe67582ee&DISPLAYFORMAT=PIPE&REVERSEMAPXML=yes
    &CONNECTION=http&PRODUCTDB_ID=123
    	

Paid On Results URL Help

  1. Log into the Paid On Results website admin interface
  2. Click on "Download Feeds" from the left-hand menu
  3. Click on the "Download" link next to the merchant you want the feed for
  4. Click on the "Create Custom Feed" link at the top of the box which appears
  5. Select a default product layout of 'Standard Product Fields' and select 'Select Fields'
  6. Select your Affiliate ID and a Feed Format of 'CSV Feed seperated by Comma'
  7. Click on 'Complete Feed'
  8. The URL will be displayed in a box ready for copying'n'pasting into the Datafeed Studio download URL form input field.
  9. Your finished URL should resemble something like :
    http://feeds.paidonresults.net/1.0?affiliateid=12345&feedid=M123&template=CSV&
    field_names=ProductID,ProductName,ProductPrice,ProductDescription,SummaryDescription,AffiliateURL,
    ImageURL100by100,ImageURL200by200,ProductAddedDate,Category,MerchantName	
    
    http://feeds.paidonresults.net/1.0?affiliateid=12345&feedid=M234&template=CSV&CSVSeperator=comma&field_names=ProductID,ProductName,ProductPrice,SummaryDescription,ProductDescription,AffiliateURL,ImageURL100by100,ImageURL200by200,ProductAddedDate,Category,MerchantName
    

Share-A-Sale URL Help

Note that unlike most other affiliate networks, we are using an FTP URL for Share-A-Sale, not HTTP.

Also note that these instructions assume you have been approved for datafeed access for the merchant you want to use.

  1. Log into the Share-A-Sale website admin interface.
  2. Choose Datafeeds from the 'Get Links' menu
  3. From the list of merchants that you are approved for, note the merchant ID of the one you want to use, e.g. 12345.
  4. Copy the following FTP URL into the URL form input field in Datafeed Studio.
    ftp://username:password@datafeeds.shareasale.com/12345/12345.txt
    
  5. Substitute the merchant ID (twice), together with your actual username and password (notice the colon inbetween them), into the pasted URL.
  6. You're finished URL, assuming a username of bob, a password of hope, and a merchant ID of 54321, would look like :
    ftp://bob:hope@datafeeds.shareasale.com/54321/54321.txt
    

Silvertap URL Help

  1. Log into the SilverTap website admin interface
  2. Click on the 'Feeds' menu option
  3. In the 'Feed Options' form, select the appropriate website and programme and choose a Feed Type of 'CSV'. (Leave all other options as the default)
  4. Click on 'Generate Product Feed Link'.
  5. Paste the generated feed link into the URL field in Datafeed Studio.

TradeDoubler URL Help

  1. Log into the TradeDoubler admin web site
  2. Below the graph showing commission, locate your site and then choose "Product Feed" under the "Ad Management" menu
  3. Click 'HERE' to use the old interface (bottom of the introductory blurb)
  4. Choose the website you want the feed for
  5. Select the 'View URL' link in the 'Ver.CSV(v1)' column for the merchant you want to use
  6. Copy and paste the download URL shown into the Datafeed Studio URL form input field but change zip=true to zip=false in the URL.

WebGains URL Help

  1. Log into the WebGains admin web site
  2. Click on 'Data feed url generator' from the left-hand menu
  3. Click on the specific Program (merchant) you want to get the URL for
  4. Enter your password
  5. Leave all other options as their default value
  6. Copy and paste the download URL shown into the Datafeed Studio URL form input field