Live Simply Feed Guidelines

The quickest and most reliable way to get your listings into Live Simply is to provide us with a feed (a file containing listings data). Live Simply uses this data to index your listings.

Due to limited resources, in order to maintain our quality of service for everyone, we currently ask that feed submissions contain more than 100 listings.

For answers to some frequently asked questions about feeds, please refer to the Live Simply Feed FAQ.

Feed Help:

For details on what is understood by our feed please view Live Simply Feed help

Feed Content:

Live Simply would like as much information about each listing as possible. The more information we have, the more ways we can let users find your listings.

Please note that we generally require the full set of listings to be included in each feed update. This allows us to expire those listings we have previously seen, but which are now absent from the feed. (For feeds that are exceptionally large, or very frequently updated, we can work out an arrangement to receive deltas.)

Feed Format:

Live Simply strongly prefers XML feeds, though we can also accept CSV files, as well as tab-delimited text files.

XML feeds should be well-formed. The best way to ensure this is to run your prospective feed through an xml validator or parser to check it.

There are a number of common issues to be aware of when creating an xml feed.

If you are going to send us a delimited text file, please include descriptive column names as the first line of this file.

Compression (optional):

Live Simply has the capability to handle feeds that have been compressed via gzip or zip. This often dramatically reduces the size of the feed file being transmitted.

Fetch Method:

Live Simply can fetch feeds from your site via HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP. We only fetch your feed once a day during the night.

For large and/or featured partners, if fetching feeds from your site is not possible, Live Simply can also set up an ftp account so that you may push feeds to our ftp server.

Feed Fields:

Live Simply field documentation is available complete with sample feeds in each format we accept this can be found at Live Simply Rental Feed Fields Help.