Nasa Ads

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NASA ADS — the Astrophysics Data System, api.adsabs.harvard.edu.

3tools
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free tier50 calls/day

Tools

ads_paper

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

No parameters required.

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ads_citations

Papers that cite a given paper, or the papers it cites — the ADS citation graph, which is

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-ads/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/nasa-ads/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ads_search","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("ads_search", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("nasa ads — the astrophysics data system, api");