From 2092f66dcd2f84f2c2f3a61a4838fd6491c6497e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abel Luck <abel@guardianproject.info>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:37:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Handle empty Pangea HTML content

---
 repub/spiders/rss_spider.py |  5 +++--
 tests/test_file_feeds.py    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/repub/spiders/rss_spider.py b/repub/spiders/rss_spider.py
index 29ccc92..366c834 100644
--- a/repub/spiders/rss_spider.py
+++ b/repub/spiders/rss_spider.py
@@ -242,8 +242,9 @@ class RssFeedSpider(BaseRssFeedSpider):
 
         if "content" in entry:
             for c in entry.content:
-                if c.type == "text/html":
-                    html, urls = self.munge_cdata_html(c.value)
+                raw_html = getattr(c, "value", "") or ""
+                if c.type == "text/html" and raw_html.strip() != "":
+                    html, urls = self.munge_cdata_html(raw_html)
                     item.append(CONTENT.encoded(CDATA(html)))
                     image_urls.extend(urls[FileType.IMAGE])
                     video_urls.extend(urls[FileType.VIDEO])
diff --git a/tests/test_file_feeds.py b/tests/test_file_feeds.py
index 1518898..284a9fc 100644
--- a/tests/test_file_feeds.py
+++ b/tests/test_file_feeds.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from scrapy.http import TextResponse
 from scrapy.settings import Settings
 
 from repub import entrypoint as entrypoint_module
@@ -63,3 +64,46 @@ def test_rss_spider_rewrites_public_asset_urls_as_relative_paths() -> None:
         )
         == f"audio/{local_audio_path('https://example.com/media/podcast.mp3')}"
     )
+
+
+def test_rss_spider_keeps_items_with_empty_content_encoded() -> None:
+    feed_text = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" version="2.0">
+  <channel>
+    <title>Empty Content Feed</title>
+    <link>https://example.com</link>
+    <description>Feed with empty HTML content blocks.</description>
+    <item>
+      <title>Entry With Empty Content</title>
+      <link>https://example.com/entry</link>
+      <description>Summary text still exists.</description>
+      <guid isPermaLink="false">entry-1</guid>
+      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
+      <content:encoded></content:encoded>
+    </item>
+  </channel>
+</rss>
+"""
+    spider = RssFeedSpider(feed_name="demo", url="https://example.com/feed.rss")
+    spider.settings = Settings(
+        values={
+            "REPUBLISHER_IMAGE_DIR": "images",
+            "REPUBLISHER_FILE_DIR": "files",
+            "REPUBLISHER_AUDIO_DIR": "audio",
+            "REPUBLISHER_VIDEO_DIR": "video",
+        }
+    )
+    response = TextResponse(
+        url="https://example.com/feed.rss",
+        body=feed_text.encode("utf-8"),
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+
+    parse_result = spider._parse(response)
+
+    assert parse_result is not None
+    items = list(parse_result)
+
+    assert len(items) == 2
+    assert items[0].el.findtext("title") == "Empty Content Feed"
+    assert items[1].el.findtext("title") == "Entry With Empty Content"