Add User-Agent header to arXiv API requests

erwardenaar · claude · erwardenaar · commit 93ff9ec50906 · 2026-05-29T14:03:31.000Z
arXiv recommends identifying API clients via User-Agent. This follows
their usage guidelines and may reduce the likelihood of rate limiting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/openllm_selector/database.py b/src/openllm_selector/database.py
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ def fetch_recent_papers(model_name: str, max_results: int = 3) -> list[dict]:
             "sortOrder": "descending",
             "max_results": max_results,
         },
+        headers={"User-Agent": "openllm-selector/0.0.1 (https://github.com/evawardenaar/openllm-selector)"},
         timeout=(5, 15),
     )
     response.raise_for_status()

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ def fetch_recent_papers(model_name: str, max_results: int = 3) -> list[dict]:`
`521`	`521`	`"sortOrder": "descending",`
`522`	`522`	`"max_results": max_results,`
`523`	`523`	`},`
	`524`	`+ headers={"User-Agent": "openllm-selector/0.0.1 (https://github.com/evawardenaar/openllm-selector)"},`
`524`	`525`	`timeout=(5, 15),`
`525`	`526`	`)`
`526`	`527`	`response.raise_for_status()`