ads_paper

Pack: nasa-ads · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-ads/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/ads_paper for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Full record for one paper by bibcode, DOI or arXiv id — title, every author, journal,

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
identifierstringyesADS bibcode (e.g. “2015ApJ…808…50A”), a DOI (“10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/50”), or an
_apiKeystringnoNASA ADS API token — free from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/user/settings/token.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "identifier": "2015ApJ...808...50A"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-ads/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ads_paper","arguments":{"identifier":"2015ApJ...808...50A"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('ads_paper', {
  "identifier": "2015ApJ...808...50A"
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nasa-ads": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-ads/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

Regenerated from source · build September 18, 2026