Invokes a fetch for the datafeed in your Merchant Center account. If you need to call this method more than once per day, we recommend you use the Products service to update your product data.
HTTP request
POST https://shoppingcontent.googleapis.com/content/v2.1/{merchantId}/datafeeds/{datafeedId}/fetchNow
Path parameters
Parameters
merchantId
string
The ID of the account that manages the datafeed. This account cannot be a multi-client account.
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