Feed Import (Twitter) via Cron

Question

I'm using the Feeds Module to import Twitter Tweets as Nodes. As long as I start the import manually via www.yourdrupal.com/import everything works fine. But I want the Feed importer to start automatically every hour. Cron is activated, but nothing gets imported. I get an error on the statuspage "Token and secret MUST be string values."

My Feed import settings:

Protokoll Log:

Feeds Log:

Debugging Info: "No channels ready to be executed, skipping cron."

Answer 1

I would recommend using this sandbox (Twitter Pull) for retrieving tweets instead. I've set it up before and it works quite well. You can see the relevant discussion below.

Errors occured while trying to retrieve tweets

Answer 2

The error:

No channels ready to be executed, skipping cron

sounds like it's related to Elysia Cron module.

So please double check that you've followed the installation process (INSTALL.txt), especially this part:

To do this refer to the section "Configuring cron jobs" of drupal documentation: http://drupal.org/cron

The only difference is that you should use the * * * * * rule part instead of 0 * * * * or 45 * * * * as described in the guide.

While you're editing the system crontab, it's also recommended to replace the /cron.php part with /sites/modules/elysia_cron/cron.php (if you have installed elysia_cron in sites/modules directory). This is an optional step (you can leave /cron.php if you want), doing it will result in a better performance in bigger sites (elysia_cron's cron.php handles cache in a better way).

For example:

* * * * * wget -O- -q -t 1 http://example.com/sites/all/modules/elysia_cron/cron.php

You can also try to run cron from UI at /admin/config/system/cron.

If you're using drush, try drush elysia-cron run, instead of drush cron.

Check elysia_cron_run() for execution logic.

Also check related Drupal issues: #1748106, #1952624.