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Generate Amazon Discovery feed
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For each content partner, content ingestion is the core component to get onboarded on a device platform. Through ingestion, the platform collects your content catalog and ingests it into its database. To ingest contents, the device platform servers will hit the APIs provided by ViewLift. 

The feeds service provides an API that you can use to build XML documents that contain the metadata from the content you have ingested in the ViewLift Tools Platform. This article describes how to generate an Amazon Discovery feed.

When a feed request is created, the backend runs a job to generate the feed XML and save the XML in an s3 bucket; this data can later be accessed from ViewLift tools. The feed once created is refreshed every 24 hours through a scheduled job.

Add & generate a feed 

From the Admin page, click Feed Management > Add New Feed.

The following table describes the fields in the Add New Feed dialog. 

Screen elementsDescription
Enter NameName for the feed.
Enter DescriptionDescription of the feed to generate.
Feed TypeSelect Amazon Discovery Feed.
Amazon Bucket Name

S3 Key location (path) where the XML will be saved, and provide access to the path to the feed admin in Amazon.

Enter Email for NotificationsAdd a business email address to receive all email notifications about feed update.
Select Tags (Optional) Generate feed by tags.
Select Categories(Optional) Generate feed by categories. 

Click Submit. ViewLift creates a video feed URL in the web.xml file within 10-15 minutes.
You can access the feed XML file on a new browser window. The XML file will list all videos with the specified tags and categories.

To learn how to edit a video feed, see Feed management.

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