This is a clean-room reimplementation of (a small subset of) the Classic ADS interface.

NASA ADS (Astrophysics Data System) provides API to access the database programmatically, and a Javascript-based modern web interface at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu, while the classic HTML-based ADS interface will be retired soon. This package provides a replacement for the most commonly used tasks (author/title/abstract query, abstract display, reference and citation search) in the traditional, pure HTML interface. It translates the HTML form input into a query for the ADS API, executes the query, and formats the output. It is compatible with Python 2 and 3, uses no external libraries except requests, and produces pure HTML with no fancy Javascript, which can be viewed in any browser and even in a text mode.

The package can be used locally by running the script server.py and pointing the browser to http://0.0.0.0:8000 (or perhaps another port #). One needs to set the environment variable ADS_DEV_KEY to a 40-character access token, provided by the ADS for registered users.

Alternatively, this package powers the website http://adsabs.net