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
>>> import ads >>> ads.config.token = 'secret token' >>> papers = ads.SearchQuery(q="supernova", sort="citation_count") >>> for paper in papers: >>> print(paper.title) [u'Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds'] [u'Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae'] [u'Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant'] [u'First-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters'] [u'Abundances of the elements: Meteoritic and solar']
> cd /path/to/ads > python -m unittest discover