A Python Module to Interact with NASA's ADS that Doesn't Suck™
If you're in astro research, then you pretty much need NASA's ADS. It's tried, true, and people go crazy on the rare occasions when it goes down.
- Docs: https://ads.readthedocs.io/
- Repo: https://github.com/andycasey/ads
- PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ads
Quickstart
import ads ads.config.token = 'secret token' papers = ads.SearchQuery(q="supernova", sort="citation_count") for paper in papers: print(paper.title[0])
You can expect to see some titles like this:
Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds
Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae
Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
First-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters
Abundances of the elements: Meteoritic and solar
Running tests
cd /path/to/ads pip install -e . "ads[tests]" python -m unittest discover