Podcasts Without Yaml Frontmatter Need Body Regex Backfill

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Daemons render recent podcast ingest as <span class="title"> (plain text, no link) even though the page body clearly contains YouTube: \ID\` and Show: NAME — ...` markdown lines. Visitors see the title with no hyperlink.

WITH parsed AS ( SELECT p.slug, (REGEXP_MATCH(p.compiled_truth, E'\\\\YouTube:\\\\\\s([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{6,15})', 'i'))[1] AS yt_id, (REGEXP_MATCH(p.compiled_truth, E'\\\\Show:\\\\\\s([^\n—\(]+)', 'i'))[1] AS raw_show FROM pages p WHERE p.slug LIKE 'media/podcasts/%' AND p.deleted_at IS NULL AND p.frontmatter->>'visibility' = 'public' AND (p.frontmatter->>'youtube_url') IS NULL AND (REGEXP_MATCH(p.compiled_truth, E'\\\\YouTube:\\\\\\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{6,15})', 'i'))[1] IS NOT NULL ) UPDATE pages p SET frontmatter = jsonb_set( jsonb_set(p.frontmatter, '{show}', to_jsonb(TRIM(parsed.raw_show))), '{youtube_url}', to_jsonb('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' || parsed.yt_id) ) FROM parsed WHERE p.slug = parsed.slug;

Fix on the ingest side: in the script that writes podcast pages (probably ~/.hermes/scripts/podcast_ingest.py or similar), add a line that constructs the YAML frontmatter block and writes BOTH the JSONB column and the body's ---...--- block. The renderer already handles both via mergeBodyFrontmatter(), but the next-batch ingest should not need body-regex extraction as a fallback.

The 2026-06-26 ingest pipeline (the "2026-07-01-batch" series visible in the body transcript paths) writes pages whose frontmatter JSONB column is {} — empty — while putting all metadata into the markdown body as bold-text lines. The slot renderer's pickSourceUrl() only reads the JSONB column. Result: page exists, visibility=public, title shows, but zero URL field, so no <a href>.

How it's structured

  1. The symptom Daemons render recent podcast ingest as <span class="title"> (plain text, no link) even though the page body clearly contains `**YouTube:*…
  2. The root cause The 2026-06-26 ingest pipeline (the "2026-07-01-batch" series visible in the body transcript paths) writes pages whose frontmatter JSONB c…
  3. The root cause This is the same "newer ingest strips metadata into body" pattern that bit articles on 2026-06-30, except articles at least had a JSONB colu…
  4. Verified 2026-07-02 against the live page 11 public podcasts had no link on the homepage, all with {} frontmatter:
  5. Verified 2026-07-02 against the live page The bulk-backfill SQL is below; the column-upgrade on the ingest side will prevent recurrence (next section).
  6. The bulk-backfill SQL (one-shot) WITH parsed AS ( SELECT p.slug, (REGEXP_MATCH(p.compiled_truth, E'\\\\YouTube:\\\\\\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{6,15})', 'i'))[1] AS yt_id, (REGE…
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