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Installing BibDesk and ADS
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ADS & BibDesk

Install BibDesk from https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/.

Alternatively, via the Homebrew Cask.

brew cask install bibdesk

Install ads and ads2bibdesk via pip. (I use pip installed via Conda.) See https://github.com/andycasey/ads and https://github.com/r-xue/ads2bibdesk for details on these packages.

pip install ads
pip install --install-option="--service" ads2bibdesk

Get ads_token from https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/user/settings/token, and put in ~/.ads/ads2bibdesk.cfg. Create this directory and file if it doesn't exist. You need a user account with ADS to get the token.

Now you can add papers to BibDesk via the command line.

ads2bibdesk "2013ARA&A..51..105C"

Or with the macOS service by right clicking on a Bibcode in a web browser.

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