Manage Local Feeds Partnership (LFP) providers

The Local Feeds Partnership program is a way for retailers to participate in Local Inventory Ads and Free Local Listings without having to create their own primary and local product inventory feeds. Trusted data providers can provide sales or inventory data to Google on behalf of retailers.

Prerequisites

To use the API methods in this section, establish your Local Inventory Ads (LIA) or Free Local Listing (FLL) programs first. For more details, see Manage omnichannel settings.

Find available LFP providers

To retrieve all the available LFP providers in a country, use lfpProviders.findLfpProviders.

POST
https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/omnichannelSettings/{REGION_CODE}/lfpProviders:find

Replace the following:

A sample successful response:

200 OK
{
  "lsfProviders": [
    {
      "name": "accounts/{ACCOUNT}/omnichannelSettings/{REGION_CODE}/lsfProviders/12345",
      "regionCode": {REGION_CODE},
      "displayName": "LFP Provider 1"
    }, {
      "name": "accounts/{ACCOUNT}/omnichannelSettings/{REGION_CODE}/lsfProviders/67890",
      "regionCode": {REGION_CODE},
      "displayName": "LFP Provider 6"
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": 50
}

Here is a code sample:

package shopping.merchant.samples.accounts.v1;

// [START merchantapi_find_lfp_providers]
import com.google.api.gax.core.FixedCredentialsProvider;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.FindLfpProvidersRequest;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvider;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvidersServiceClient;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvidersServiceClient.FindLfpProvidersPagedResponse;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvidersServiceSettings;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.OmnichannelSettingName;
import shopping.merchant.samples.utils.Authenticator;
import shopping.merchant.samples.utils.Config;

/** This class demonstrates how to get the Lfp Providers for a given Merchant Center account */
public class FindLfpProvidersSample {

  public static void findLfpProviders(Config config, String regionCode)
      throws Exception {

    // Obtains OAuth token based on the user's configuration.
    GoogleCredentials credential = new Authenticator().authenticate();

    // Creates service settings using the retrieved credentials.
    LfpProvidersServiceSettings lfpProvidersServiceSettings =
        LfpProvidersServiceSettings.newBuilder()
            .setCredentialsProvider(FixedCredentialsProvider.create(credential))
            .build();

    // Gets the account ID from the config file.
    String accountId = config.getAccountId().toString();
    // Creates parent to identify the omnichannelSetting from which to list all Lfp Providers.
    String parent =
        OmnichannelSettingName.newBuilder()
            .setAccount(accountId)
            .setOmnichannelSetting(regionCode)
            .build()
            .toString();

    // Calls the API and catches and prints any network failures/errors.
    try (LfpProvidersServiceClient lfpProvidersServiceClient =
        LfpProvidersServiceClient.create(lfpProvidersServiceSettings)) {
      FindLfpProvidersRequest request =
          FindLfpProvidersRequest.newBuilder().setParent(parent).build();

      System.out.println("Sending find LFP providers request:");
      FindLfpProvidersPagedResponse response = lfpProvidersServiceClient.findLfpProviders(request);

      int count = 0;

      // Iterates over all the entries in the response.
      for (LfpProvider lfpProvider : response.iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println(lfpProvider);
        count++;
      }
      System.out.println(String.format("The following count of elements were returned: %d", count));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println("An error has occurred: ");
      System.out.println(e);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Config config = Config.load();

    // The country you're targeting at.
    String regionCode = "{REGION_CODE}";

    findLfpProviders(config, regionCode);
  }
}
// [END merchantapi_find_lfp_providers]

To build an LFP partnership, use lfpProviders.LinkLfpProvider:

POST
https://merchantapi.googleapis.com/accounts/v1/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/omnichannelSettings/{REGION_CODE}/lfpProviders/{LFP_PROVIDER}:linkLfpProvider
{
  "externalAccountId": "{EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ID}",
}

Replace the following:

  • {ACCOUNT_ID}: The unique identifier of your Merchant Center account
  • {LFP_PROVIDER}: The LFP provider ID returned in the previous step. For example, it would be 12345 for LFP Provider 1.
  • {EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ID}: The external account ID by which the merchant is known to the LFP provider.

This code sample shows how to link to an LFP provider:

package shopping.merchant.samples.accounts.v1;

// [START merchantapi_link_lfp_provider]
import com.google.api.gax.core.FixedCredentialsProvider;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvidersServiceClient;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LfpProvidersServiceSettings;
import com.google.shopping.merchant.accounts.v1.LinkLfpProviderRequest;
import shopping.merchant.samples.utils.Authenticator;

/** This class demonstrates how to link the Lfp Providers for a given Merchant Center account */
public class LinkLfpProviderSample {

  public static void linkLfpProvider(String lfpProviderName, String externalAccountId)
      throws Exception {

    // Obtains OAuth token based on the user's configuration.
    GoogleCredentials credential = new Authenticator().authenticate();

    // Creates service settings using the retrieved credentials.
    LfpProvidersServiceSettings lfpProvidersServiceSettings =
        LfpProvidersServiceSettings.newBuilder()
            .setCredentialsProvider(FixedCredentialsProvider.create(credential))
            .build();

    // Calls the API and catches and prints any network failures/errors.
    try (LfpProvidersServiceClient lfpProvidersServiceClient =
        LfpProvidersServiceClient.create(lfpProvidersServiceSettings)) {
      LinkLfpProviderRequest request =
          LinkLfpProviderRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(lfpProviderName)
              .setExternalAccountId(externalAccountId)
              .build();

      System.out.println("Sending link lfp provider request:");
      // Empty response returned on success.
      lfpProvidersServiceClient.linkLfpProvider(request);
      System.out.println(String.format("Successfully linked to LFP provider: %s", lfpProviderName));
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println("An error has occurred: ");
      System.out.println(e);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // The name of the lfp provider you want to link, returned from `lfpProviders.findLfpProviders`.
    // It's of the form
    // "accounts/{account_id}/omnichannelSettings/{omnichannel_settings}/lfpProviders/{lfp_provider}".
    String lfpProviderName = "{LFP_PROVIDER_NAME}";
    // External account ID by which this merchant is known to the LFP provider.
    String externalAccountId = "{EXTERNAL_ACCOUNT_ID}";

    linkLfpProvider(lfpProviderName, externalAccountId);
  }
}
// [END merchantapi_link_lfp_provider]

``` You can check your LFP status by calling `omnichannelSettings.get` and
checking the `LfpLink` field.

To learn more about how to use LFP, see [Local feeds partnership
API](https://developers.google.com/merchant/api/guides/local-feeds-partnership/overview).