Fix arxivbot workflow: guard against non-BibTeX DOI responses and shell injection#1107
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Fix arxivbot workflow: guard against non-BibTeX DOI responses and shell injection
Jun 15, 2026
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The
arxiv_to_publications_correctworkflow still failed after #1106 because two issues remained unaddressed.Bugs fixed
Unhandled
IndexErroron unexpected DOI responsesWhen a DOI resolves to a 200 OK but returns non-BibTeX content (HTML redirect, plain-text error),
bib.split("{")yields an emptyrest1, andrest1[0]crashes withIndexError— exiting the script with code 1 before any output is captured.Before:
After:
db.entries.removeis now deferred until a valid replacement is confirmed, preventing database corruption on partial failure.Shell injection via
${{ github.event.issue.body }}Inlining the issue body directly into the shell command is unsafe if any paper title contains
"or backticks.Minor
requestsadded explicitly to pip installs (was implicitly available on runners).bibtex_req/meta_req) to avoid reuse confusion.