misc. small changes

Summary

Miscellaneous changes regarding converters, transformer functions etc.

Focus

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Run the unit tests.

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src/caoscrawler/default_transformers.yml

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+# Lookup table for matching functions and cfood yaml node names.
 
 submatch:
   package: caoscrawler.transformer_functions
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ split:
 replace:
   package: caoscrawler.transformer_functions
   function: replace
+datetime_parse:
+  package: caoscrawler.transformer_functions
+  function: datetime_parse