First of all, I'd like to say this is a great module. But some things do not work as I expect them to. Here is the main issue.
Feeds on my site are set up to retrieve node "created" time from original feeds. However on the first run (and sometimes the next few runs) they produce nodes using download time for "created" time. To fix this I have to purge and refresh the feeds repeatedly and even that does not work sometimes.
Also, some feeds just produce the standard error message when I try to refresh them on my main site, but work perfectly on another website.
And yes, I've installed the Simpletests module, but it did not offer me a test for FeedAPI.

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ola90@drupal.ru commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

UPDATE: fixed the first issue by upgrading to Drupal 5.7, fixed the second issue by emptying SimplePie cache (although the prospect of having to do it regularly scares me).

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ola90@drupal.ru commented

UPDATE 2: the first issue persists. Everything worlks fine when I, the site owner, create new feeds. But when users create feeds all their nodes' "created" time is set to download time on the first run, be it cron or manual refresh. So I have to fix it by setting "Update on refresh" and refreshing the feeds.

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ola90@drupal.ru commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

UPDATE 2: It appears that when feeds are added by users without administrative permissions FeedAPI ignores the content type settings such as "created date" and "update existing items when feed is refreshed" (although the checkboxes are marked correctly when the admin edits the node), hence the weird behavior.

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aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
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Assigned: Unassigned » aron novak
Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for the really exact description, thanks to you, finally i could fix this annoying bug. All in all, all content-type settings were discarded if run as non-(feedapi advanced)-privileged user. It's ok now for both FeedAPI for Drupal 5 and 6. There is no separate patch for FeedAPI 1.0. I encourage you to wait for FeedAPI 1.1 for Drupal 5, it's really soon. Or you can try out the devel packages.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.