Big Queries supported?

[aaronlauterer]

Big Queries supported?

[jonnybazookatone]

This client doesn't currently have any API interface to the bigquery end point. However, you can look at the ADS help pages on how to interact with the bigquery end point directly using the requests package.

The fastest option is to open an issue on the ADS help pages, or send them an e-mail at [email protected] to ask them the best way to do this.

If you prefer to try it anyway, you can do the following that should work:

They used to have a policy of not encouraging the use of bigquery, so the examples on https://github.com/adsabs/adsabs-dev-api/blob/47b1b2dd561c2930df3aec7a5df1f12408499826/search.md won't work, as the biquery end point is limited to internal use at the moment (iirc; https://github.com/adsabs/solr-service/blob/master/solr/views.py#L149).

Instead, it was encouraged to use the myads/vault end point:

1. create a query, and store it in their store-query end point
2. execute the bigquery via execute-query end point
3. retrieve the results and conform it to an ads.Article object

You can see an "implementation" of that here: https://github.com/adsabs/tugboat/blob/master/tugboat/views.py#L73

If you implement it then open a PR, it would be much appreciated by many :).

[jonnybazookatone]

I should note, the second step uses a queryid to carry out the search on the search engine. This doesn't always have the same behaviour as normal searches.

[aaronlauterer]

Okay, thanks! I'll look into it and see what I can contribute.

[jonnybazookatone]

Cool, I'll close this ticket then.