Skip to content

andycasey/ads

Repository files navigation

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.

Build Status Coverage Status

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