Use when the user mentions 'ADS', 'NASA ADS', 'Astrophysics Data System', or asks to search astronomy/astrophysics literature, find papers by bibcode, get citation counts from ADS, or retrieve BibTeX from the ADS database.
Search NASA's Astrophysics Data System for astronomy papers by author, title, or bibcode, and retrieve BibTeX or citation counts.
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scripts/ads.pySearch and retrieve papers from NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS).
Requires: requests (pip install requests)
ADS requires an API token for authentication.
Save your token in one of these locations:
Option 1: Config file (recommended)
mkdir -p ~/.ads
echo "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" > ~/.ads/dev_key
chmod 600 ~/.ads/dev_key
Option 2: Environment variable
export ADS_DEV_KEY="YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"
ADS uses bibcodes as unique identifiers:
YYYYJJJJJVVVVMPPPPA2019ApJ...882L..12P (ApJ Letters, 2019)# Get a record by bibcode
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P
# Get BibTeX
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P --format bibtex
# Search by author
python scripts/ads.py --search "author:Einstein"
# Search by first author only
python scripts/ads.py --search "author:^Hawking"
# Search by title
python scripts/ads.py --search 'title:"dark energy"'
# Search by abstract
python scripts/ads.py --search 'abs:"gravitational waves"'
# Search by year range
python scripts/ads.py --search "author:Penrose year:2015-2020"
# Search by journal
python scripts/ads.py --search "bibstem:ApJ year:2023"
# Combined search
python scripts/ads.py --search 'author:Planck title:"cosmological parameters"'
# Limit results
python scripts/ads.py --search "author:Witten" -n 5
| Field | Syntax | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Author | author:"Last, First" | author:"Hawking, S" |
| First Author | author:^Name | author:^Einstein |
| Title | title:"phrase" | title:"black hole" |
| Abstract | abs:"phrase" | abs:"dark matter" |
| Year | year:YYYY or year:YYYY-YYYY | year:2020-2023 |
| Journal | bibstem:abbrev | bibstem:MNRAS |
| arXiv ID | arXiv:id | arXiv:1207.7214 |
| DOI | doi:value | doi:10.1086/345794 |
| Object | object:name | object:M31 |
Boolean operators: AND (default), OR, NOT, - (negation)
| Abbreviation | Journal |
|---|---|
ApJ | Astrophysical Journal |
ApJL | ApJ Letters |
MNRAS | Monthly Notices of the RAS |
A&A | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
AJ | Astronomical Journal |
PhRvD | Physical Review D |
PhRvL | Physical Review Letters |
JCAP | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
# Get papers citing a record
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P --citations
# Top 20 citing papers
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P --citations -n 20
# Default (shows metadata)
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P
# BibTeX
python scripts/ads.py 2019ApJ...882L..12P --format bibtex
python scripts/ads.py --search "author:Name"python scripts/ads.py <bibcode>python scripts/ads.py <bibcode> --format bibtexpython scripts/ads.py <bibcode> --citationsADS allows 5000 requests per day per API token.
Use together: search on ADS for published papers with citation data, use arXiv skill to get source.
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