As a member, I want to add a submission URL as either an arXiv or GitHub link and have the title and description auto-populate.

[vprusso]

Task:

If an arXiv or GitHub link is provided via the submission page, we should automatically scrape the title and description from their respective APIs.

User Story (User <-> System (Web app))

User	System (Web app)
1. (Authenticated user on `AddSubmission/` view)	1. (Displaying "add submission" page)
2. User puts a link in "Content URL" textbox with `https://arxiv.org/` prefix OR with `https://github.com/` prefix.	2.
3.	3. Content in "Submission Name" and "Description" text boxes auto-populate.
4. User deletes the content in the "Content URL" textbox.	4.
5.	5. Any text that was dynamically populated from step 3. is removed from both "Submission Name" and "Description".
6. (Successful call)	6. (Successful response)

Here are the relevant links for the GitHub and arXiv REST APIs, respectively:

• GitHub REST API
• arXiv REST API

[nathanshammah]

+1 on this. As a step toward this, the order of the submission fields could already be swapped, between arxiv link and title.

[vprusso]

@nathanshammah you brought up a good point though in our meeting. This might not be as straightforward as using their own APIs. As you mentioned, even when sharing an arXiv link, the image associated with that link is just the arXiv logo itself and not anything visual contained within the article.

If this is an issue that arXiv itself has in extracting for one reason or another, we might come up against the same issue. We can also look into the PWC approach for this and see if that might be worth looking into as an alternative for image grabbing from the arXiv link.

[cometta]

PR :

https://github.com/unitaryfund/metriq-api/pull/193 https://github.com/unitaryfund/metriq-app/pull/590

[nathanshammah]

Thanks @cometta!

[WrathfulSpatula]

Thanks @cometta!