strftime error while importing Atom feed

[tsangiotis]

I am trying to import my current atom feed but I get an undefined methodstrftime' for nil:NilClass` error.

Here is the call with the --trace option. It looks similar to #194.

$ jekyll import rss --source "http://tsangiotis.com/posts.atom" --trace
/Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-import-0.11.0/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:40:in `block in process': undefined method `strftime' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-import-0.11.0/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:39:in `each'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-import-0.11.0/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:39:in `process'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-import-0.11.0/lib/jekyll-import/importer.rb:23:in `run'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-import-0.11.0/lib/jekyll-import.rb:26:in `block (3 levels) in add_importer_commands'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `block in execute'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `each'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `execute'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:42:in `go'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/gems/jekyll-3.2.1/exe/jekyll:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/jekyll:23:in `<main>'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
    from /Users/tsangiotis/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

[parkr]

Does your RSS feed have dates? https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import/blob/master/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb#L40

[lws-team]

This is a problem about Atom vs RSS. Jekyll itself produces atom.xml, but this cannot parse it.

Users can work around it by screwing with the atom file, what kinda worked for me was

Original Atom	Munged
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel>
<updated	<pubDate
</updated	</pubDate
<entry	<item
</entry	</item
<updated	<pubDate
</updated	</pubDate
</feed>	</channel></rss>

I guess it's not hard to fix. But although it produced _posts/ with the content, it was not markupized, just left as html.

Being able to recover a Jekyll blog from just the deployed html would be good. This problem the Jekyll importer not being able to eat Jekyll's own atom.xml makes that needlessly painful and mysterious.

[parkr]

Unfortunately translating HTML to Markdown is not a feature we currently offer.

I think however that we should be able to read both regular RSS and Atom feeds. The fact that it appears not to seems like a bug to me!

[lws-team]

Unfortunately translating HTML to Markdown is not a feature we currently offer.

Just as a FYI, it seems it is something that people have wanted non-officially and striven to do something about.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jekyll-html-md
https://github.com/postmodern/jekyll-static-import

I'm not sure if I need it or not... what was written will probably almost entirely stay written. But the tags and such did not get reborn (they are not in the html / atom).

Anyway I appreciate it could regenerate something useful just from the rendered site. Maybe it's a good general principle though to render ALL the source material into the HTML; when it's directly generated then just the generated will do. But metadata going in a comment wouldn't hurt and would be very useful if you ever found yourself in the situation all you had was the rendered site.

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