A script to get full text search results from ADS and try matching degree latitudes. Needs work with minutes and other stuff. Also ought to be made into a full fledged aribitrary search term handling script.

bla.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
import json
import pprint
import time

PREFIX="http://adslabs.org/adsabs/api/search/"
APIKEY="INSERT CIA SECRET"

import re
re2='(°)'

re1='((?:\S+))'
re3=re1
rg = re.compile(re1+re2+re3,re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL)
def myfunction(myword, start, numrows, filename, localmode=False):
    theurlis=PREFIX+"?q="+myword+"&hl=full&hl=abstract&rows="+str(numrows)+"&start="+str(start)+"&dev_key="+APIKEY
    matchresults={}
    if not localmode:
        print theurlis
        result=requests.get(theurlis)
        myjson=result.text
        myresultdict=json.loads(myjson)
        myresults=myresultdict['results']['docs']
        myshortformresults={e['bibcode']: e['highlights'] for e in myresults}
        out=json.dumps(myshortformresults)
        fd=open(filename, "w")
        fd.write(out)
        fd.close()
    else:
        stufftr=open(filename).read()
        myshortformresults=json.loads(stufftr)

    for bibcode in myshortformresults.keys():
        resultsdict=myshortformresults[bibcode]
        for resulttype in resultsdict.keys():
            snippets=resultsdict[resulttype]
            for snippet in snippets:
                m=rg.search(snippet)
                if m:
                    var1=m.group(1)
                    c1=m.group(2)
                    var3=m.group(3)
                    print bibcode, "("+var1+")"+"("+c1+")"+"("+var3+")"+"\n"
                    matchresults[bibcode]=(var1,var3)
    return matchresults

if __name__=="__main__":
    import sys
    # snip="of 25°N and 40°N is used"
    # m=rg.search(snip)
    # if m:
    #     float1=m.group(1)
    #     c1=m.group(2)
    #     var1=m.group(3)
    #     print "("+float1+")"+"("+c1+")"+"("+var1+")"+"\n"
    if len(sys.argv)<=1 or len(sys.argv) > 2:
        print "No mode specified\n"
        sys.exit(0)
    mode=sys.argv[1]
    print "MODE is", mode
    if mode=="False":
        mode=False
    mode=bool(mode)
    print "MODE IS", mode
    for i in range(10):
        out=myfunction("latitude", i*100+1, 100, "results"+str(i)+".txt", mode)
    # fd=open("results"+str(i)+".txt", "w")
    # fd.write(out)
    # fd.close()
    #time.sleep(1)