Eat

Product feeds for Craft Commerce. Point a merchant channel at a URL and stop hand-writing Twig.

Eat turns your Commerce catalogue into the file Google, Meta, Pinterest, Microsoft, TikTok and a dozen other channels expect: their attribute names, their required fields, their vocabulary for "in stock", in RSS, XML, CSV, TSV or JSON, regenerated on a schedule and delivered wherever the channel wants it.

• Lite — free. Two feeds, the Google and Meta channels, every format, scheduled regeneration, a public feed URL.
• Pro — $79. Every channel plus a custom template builder, output modifiers, condition-builder matching, taxonomy mapping, the run log, live URLs, asset volume / FTP / SFTP delivery, Google Merchant Center Content API push, and the console commands.

Requirements

Craft CMS 5.3+, Craft Commerce 5.0+, PHP 8.2+. SFTP delivery additionally needs phpseclib/phpseclib ^3.0; FTP delivery needs PHP's ftp extension.

Installation

composer require justinholtweb/craft-eat
php craft plugin/install eat

Channels

Channel	Default format	Notes
Google Shopping	RSS 2.0	Merchant Center primary feed, g: namespace
Google Local Inventory	CSV	Per-store availability and price
Meta (Facebook & Instagram)	CSV	Commerce Manager catalog
Pinterest	RSS 2.0	Catalogs data source
Microsoft (Bing) Shopping	TSV	Microsoft Merchant Center
TikTok	CSV	sku_id rather than id
Snapchat	CSV	Snapchat Catalogs
Criteo	XML	<products><product>, instock as true/false
Awin	CSV	Affiliate datafeed columns
idealo	CSV	German vocabulary out of the box
Kelkoo	XML	Hyphenated element names
PriceRunner	TSV	Title-case column names
Shopzilla / Connexity	TSV
Rakuten Advertising	TSV
Custom	CSV	Name every column or element yourself

Each channel arrives with its attributes already mapped to the Commerce data they almost certainly mean — g:id to the variant SKU, g:price to the catalogue price with a currency code, g:availability to the stock state in that channel's wording.

Quick start

1. Eat → Feeds → New feed. Name it, pick the channel and format.
2. Products. Choose product types and statuses; optionally require an image or a price, exclude SKUs with wildcards, or (Pro) match with Craft's condition builder.
3. Attributes. The channel's attributes are already listed. Point anything still empty at a custom field, a static value or the taxonomy map.
4. Delivery. Leave it on "write a file" and copy the URL, or push it to a volume, an FTP/SFTP server, or Merchant Center directly.
5. Schedule. Pick an interval, then run php craft eat/feeds/generate --due from cron.

Hit Preview at any point: it runs the same generator the real feed does, so what you see is what the channel gets.

Where values come from

Each row of the attribute map has a source:

Source	Value column holds
Product attribute	one of the names below, e.g. salePriceWithCurrency
Custom field	a field handle, optionally with a path: gallery.0.url
Static value	the literal text written in every row
Taxonomy map	productType, or a field handle to map from
Twig template (Pro)	{{ object.product.myField }} — object is the variant

Variant fields win over product fields, so a variant-level override does what you expect.

Product attributes

sku id productId variantId uid itemGroupId slug · title variantTitle fullTitle description plainDescription productType productTypeName brand condition status siteName storeName · url imageUrl additionalImageUrls allImageUrls imageCount · price basePrice promotionalPrice salePrice priceWithCurrency promotionalPriceWithCurrency salePriceWithCurrency currency · availability stock inStock minQty maxQty variantCount · weight weightWithUnit length width height dimensions freeShipping shippingCategory taxCategory · dateCreated dateUpdated postDate expiryDate

Modifiers (Pro)

Chain them with |, arguments after :

strip_tags | collapse_whitespace | truncate:150:…
replace:Ltd:Limited
map:red=Rot|blue=Blau
multiply:1.2 | number:2

strip_tags decode_entities collapse_whitespace truncate prefix suffix replace regex_replace upper lower ucfirst number multiply map default

Rows

• One row per variant — what Google wants, with item_group_id tying them together.
• One row per product, default variant — for catalogues where variants are sizes nobody advertises separately.
• One row per product, cheapest variant's price — "from $19.99" feeds.

Delivery

Mode	What happens
File	Written under the feed directory, served from a stable public URL. Written to a staging file and renamed into place, so a channel fetching mid-run never gets half a feed.
Volume (Pro)	Written into a Craft asset volume — S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, anything with a filesystem.
FTP / SFTP (Pro)	Uploaded on every run. Use environment variables for the credentials.
Merchant Center (Pro)	Pushed with the Content API v2.1 in batches of 100, authenticated with a service-account key. No Google SDK required.

The local file is always written first, so the URL keeps working even when a remote destination is down — and the run log says which half failed.

Feeds can also be served live at /eat/feed/<handle>, generated on request and cached for the feed's interval.

Scheduling

*/15 * * * * cd /path/to/site && php craft eat/feeds/generate --due

Without cron, leave Schedule from web requests on: after a front-end request Eat queues anything due, throttled to once a minute and guarded by a mutex. Pro feeds can also regenerate when a product is saved — queued and debounced, so resaving a whole section costs one job per feed.

Console

php craft eat/feeds                          # list feeds
php craft eat/feeds/generate <handle>        # generate one
php craft eat/feeds/generate --all           # generate everything
php craft eat/feeds/generate --due           # generate what the schedule says
php craft eat/feeds/generate <handle> --queue
php craft eat/feeds/preview <handle> --limit=5
php craft eat/feeds/export --file=feeds.json
php craft eat/feeds/import feeds.json
php craft eat/runs [handle] --limit=20
php craft eat/runs/prune --days=30

Feeds live in the database, not project config — merchants edit them on production. export and import move them between environments; importing over a matching handle updates rather than duplicates.

Twig

{{ craft.eat.url('google') }}                 {# the URL to hand the channel #}
{% set run = craft.eat.lastRun('google') %}
{{ run.itemCount }} products, {{ run.getSizeLabel() }}

{% for item in craft.eat.items('google', 20) %}
    {{ item.title }} — {{ item.price }}
{% endfor %}

Settings

Feed directory, default brand, image transform, queue vs in-request generation, the request scheduler, batch size, live-route toggle and cache duration, and how many runs to keep per feed.

Testing

ddev exec php /var/www/craft-eat/tests/integration/checks.php   # 108 checks
ddev exec bash -c 'cd /var/www/html && bash /var/www/craft-eat/tests/smoke.sh'

License

Proprietary. © Justin Holt.