Archival repost — originally published on my old blog on July 20, 2012. Translated from French, lightly cleaned up for dev.to — I also fixed smart-quote encoding issues throughout the PHP code blocks that would have made them fail to parse. eZ Publish is now Ibexa DXP, but the kernel mechanism described here (and the "quick and dirty vs. extension hook" tradeoff) is unchanged.
eZ Publish lets you import content from an RSS feed into eZ Publish content objects without writing a single line of code. But that native feature doesn't import the media referenced in the <enclosure> tag:
<enclosure url="http://www.example.com/images/voiture.jpg" length="" type="image/jpeg"/>
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