But we need the input for the API, which we should get from the web page. I.e. 
the publication identifiers displayed on the page. But we cannot get those, as 
we cannot know when they are displayed, due to the way the pages load (or not 
load, but rather are dynamically filled in). 

Christiaan

> On 23 May 2023, at 01:11, Roberto <foice.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> maybe I have not understood what is "the other problem". The API can provide 
> all info on a paper or any other search. This can be assembled in anything 
> you want and it is already including bibtex as far as I can remember. Doesn't 
> it?
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 11:53 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> That doesn’t sound so great. But it really is mute, as I don’t see how to 
> overcome the other problem. Due to the way the pages load (or actually 
> don’t), we never know about any information. The page is basically not 
> compatible with our web groups.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
>> On 22 May 2023, at 23:41, Roberto <foice.n...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:foice.n...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> sounds like a reasonable thing the interested user should paste somewhere in 
>> the preferences menu or in a text-file of choice of the developer ... that 
>> is how the scripts I have linked above make the trick. 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 11:34 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Needing a token is actually a big problem, as we don’t have it.
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
>>> On 22 May 2023, at 23:18, Roberto <foice.n...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:foice.n...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This service has an API
>>> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/help/api/ 
>>> <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/help/api/>
>>> it needs a token as a credential, but it can be fully automated e.g. in 
>>> https://github.com/r-xue/ads2bibdesk <https://github.com/r-xue/ads2bibdesk> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 4:29 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 22 May 2023, at 14:04, David Nicholls via Bibdesk-users 
>>>> <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net 
>>>> <mailto:bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like to add the NASA/ADS website to the webgroups list: 
>>>> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/>  (in the 
>>>> Free Sites list) Is that possible
>>>> 
>>>> David C Nicholls, PhD FAIP
>>>> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
>>>> Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics
>>>> Australian National University
>>> 
>>> This is actually an open feature request (#694). However, I have no idea if 
>>> they have any service to get the (bibtex) citation info. And scraping is 
>>> often hard and easily breaks, and the way they show the information is 
>>> actually incomplete. Moreover I am not sure the way the page loads allows 
>>> us to scrape, as it does not seem to reload the page, so we don’t know when 
>>> citations are displayed.
>>> 
>>> Christiaan

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