adsquery

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Program to query the Astrophysics Data System (NASA/ADS) via the terminal.
# Currently accepts author:"^Author, First", year:YYYY style queries.
# DONE: Fix zero-input string behaviour!

# Defining our web browser.
DMBROWSER="brave"

# Ask for a query.
# The <&- is to close STDIN.
query=$(dmenu -c -bw 2 -p "Enter your ADS query" <&- | sed "s/,//g")

# Check if the query is empty
[ -z $query ] && exit

# Refine the query.
author=$(echo $query | awk '{print $1}')
year=$(echo $query | awk '{print $NF}')

# Prepare the query with HTML encoding.
url="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q="
webquery="author%3A\"%5E$author\"%2C%20year%3A$year&sort=citation_count%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0"

# Launch the browswer
$DMBROWSER "$url""$webquery"