Unable to import RSS articles into Jekyll via 'jekyll-import' (no warning messages)

[espressobeanies]

I’m not able to import my RSS articles (originally Blogger feed.atom format) into the latest version of Jekyll via the ‘jekyll-import’ method. When I go to run the import command for RSS documents, I receive the following output with no debug information:

[root@localhost blog]# ruby -r rubygems -e 'require "jekyll-import";
>      JekyllImport::Importers::RSS.run({
>        "source" => "/home/user/feed.rss"
>      })'
Traceback (most recent call last):
        2: from -e:2:in `<main>'
        1: from /usr/local/share/gems/gems/jekyll-import-0.17.1/lib/jekyll-import/importer.rb:25:in `run'
/usr/local/share/gems/gems/jekyll-import-0.17.1/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:37:in `process': private method `open' called for #<URI::Generic /home/user/feed.rss> (NoMethodError)

When I go to check the directory where my file should have been exported, nothing is there. Not sure what to do here to troubleshoot further.

[ashmaroli]

We may have to revert to using Kernel#open to automatically handle opening local and remote resources
/cc @DirtyF, @jekyll/plugin-core

[espressobeanies]

If it helps any, the system I'm attempting it on is Fedora 29 AARCH64.

I was able to convert the .atom files to .rss using a Windows program and the atom2rss.xslt file, however even in .rss format, I still am unable to import the files into Jekyll using 'jekyll-import' for the same reason above.

[thatfiredev]

@ashmaroli Is there any workaround we can currently use?

I'm also facing this problem when running:

jekyll import rss -s my_file.xml

[DirtyF]

I've reverted to use Kernel#open in c190aba

You can test the fix by editing your Gemfile to use current master

gem "jekyll-import", github: "jekyll/jekyll-import"

If that solves the issue, we'll release a fix, sorry for the inconvenience.

[thatfiredev]

Thanks @DirtyF

Running the command jekyll import rss --source https://medium.com/feed/@rosariopfernandes now shows a different error: jekyll 3.7.4 | Error: no implicit conversion of nil into String. Here's the trace:

TypeError: no implicit conversion of nil into String
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:63:in `+'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:63:in `block (2 levels) in process'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:62:in `each'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:62:in `block in process'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:42:in `each'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importers/rss.rb:42:in `process'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import/importer.rb:25:in `run'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bundler/gems/jekyll-import-c190aba48194/lib/jekyll-import.rb:30:in `block (3 levels) in add_importer_commands'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `block in execute'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `each'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/command.rb:220:in `execute'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary/program.rb:42:in `go'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/mercenary-0.3.6/lib/mercenary.rb:19:in `program'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/gems/jekyll-3.7.4/exe/jekyll:15:in `<top (required)>'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bin/jekyll:23:in `load'
  /home/rosariopfernandes/gems/bin/jekyll:23:in `<top (required)>'

[ashmaroli]

@rosariopfernandes I've pushed a temporary branch to help you with the import.
Edit your Gemfile to following:

gem "jekyll-import", github: "jekyll/jekyll-import", branch: "slugify-post-title"

[thatfiredev]

@ashmaroli worked perfectly! Thanks

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