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An Alfred Workflow to search the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
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An Alfred Workflow to search the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dfm/adsabs.alfredworkflow
- Owner: dfm
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-05-30T16:44:26.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2020-06-12T18:15:25.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-16T18:23:29.393Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: alfred-workflow, astronomy, astrophysics, scientific-literature
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 654 KB
- Stars: 14
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# An Alfred Workflow to search SAO/NASA ADS
With the deprecation of the classic SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) search interface,
I wanted to improve my workflow for searching for papers in the astronomy literature. I find
that I generally just want to do author based searches with possible year constraints so I made
this Workflow that can be used by [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com) (tested in versions 3
and 4) to make this fast and easy.
## Installation
First you'll need to get [Alfred](https://www.alfredapp.com) and buy the
[Powerpack](https://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/). Then you can download the `adsabs.workflow`
file from the [Releases](https://github.com/dfm/adsabs.alfredworkflow/releases) page. Double
click to import that into Alfred.
You can also install the development version of the workflow by cloning this repository into
the `~/Library/Application Support/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows` directory.
To get all the features out of this worflow, you should also install [Andy Casey's ads
library](https://github.com/andycasey/ads). Then you can either put your API key in the
`~/.ads/dev_key` file or set it using the `ADS_API_KEY` variable in the workflow interface.
By default Alfred uses the system Python, but you can change that by putting the path to your
favorite Python executable in the `ADS_PYTHON` variable.
## Usage
To get started you can just open Alfred and type `ads ` to start searching. This workflow is
designed to search authors and years only. For example, if you want to search for papers by an
author named "Spergel" in 2015, you can execute:
```
ads spergel 2015
```
If you only want to search for the first author, use:
```
ads ^spergel 2015
```
You can list multiple authors, if you want:
```
ads ^mandel agol 2002
```
Or year ranges:
```
ads ^mandel agol 2000 2004
```
And you can include first names, initials, etc. using quotes:
```
ads "^mandel, k" "agol, e" 2000 2004
```
## Issues
If you run into any problems, please [report the issue on
GitHub](https://github.com/dfm/adsabs.alfredworkflow/issues).
## License
Copyright 2019 Dan Foreman-Mackey.
This is free software made available under the MIT License. For details see the LICENSE file.