ADS MCP Server Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for ads-mcp — a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects AI assistants to the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) bibliographic database.

With ads-mcp, any MCP-compatible AI assistant can search for astronomical papers, retrieve abstracts and full metadata, fetch reference and citation lists, compute bibliometric indicators, and export formatted citations — all without leaving the conversation.

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Setup & Installation

🔧 Available Tools

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Available Tools

📖 API Reference

Python module documentation.

API Reference

Contents

User Guide

• Setup & Installation
  • Prerequisites
  • Install
  • Configure your API key
  • Verify the installation
• Available Tools
  • search_ads
  • get_abstract
  • get_references
  • get_citations
  • export_bibtex
  • export_ris
  • export_citation
  • find_arxiv
  • find_doi
  • get_metrics
  • get_similar
  • author_search
  • get_paper_details
• Configuration Reference
  • Variables
  • Rate limits

API Reference

• API Reference
  • ads_mcp.server — MCP Server
  • ads_mcp.client — ADS HTTP Client

Project

• Changelog