StackOverflow: Atom author tag in RSS feed

[fraxen]

Hiya - this project looks good - coming from feed2imap (the old one)!

I am getting some odd errors in this feed:
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/feed?location=stockholm&range=50&distanceUnits=Km&allowsremote=True

The error looks like something like:
Error applying item filter: cannot fetch Name from *gofeed.Person (1:8)
| Author.Name != "Weirdo"
| .......^

[Necoro]

Seems like you have a filter in your config (reads like the one from the wiki ;)). Could you supply your config snippet for this feed?

[fraxen]

I had the following filter from the example config.yml that I left in there:
item-filter: 'Author.Name != "Weirdo"'

When I remove that it works fine. But isn't it a tad odd that it would cause problem on one feed?

[Necoro]

Yes, that's odd. I'll have a look into what the issue is - from a first glance, the author tag seems fine in the feed. Perhaps it's an issue with gofeed.

[Necoro]

Hi @fraxen,

turns out: The RSS feed of Stack Overflow is weird: They use Atom's author tag in an RSS feed. This is not supported with gofeed, I've opened an issue.

I will update this bug with whatever is the result upstream and decide then on how to handle it.

NB: While disabling the filter will get rid of the error, you won't have author information in the items of that feed.

[Necoro]

Hi @fraxen,

I got around to tackle the problem and create a (larger) PR for upstream's library (mmcdole/gofeed#153). For the time being, I replaced upstream's version of gofeed with my own patched in feed2imap-go.

Thus, coming the next release, this should be fixed :)

[fraxen]

great - thanks!