Being able to find articles when parameters have values of None about adsabs-dev-api HOT 1 CLOSED

Hi Rudra,
The best way to handle this would be to use an if statement when building your query string. Something like this (assuming you're using Python):

query = 'first_author:' + first_author + ' year:'+ year
if volume:
query += ' volume:' + volume
if page:
query += ' page:' + page

There are potentially some other ways you could write this, but we're limited by the fact that if a record doesn't have a volume/page, then it doesn't usually have that field even associated with the record in the database (so you couldn't just do a wildcard search on the volume/page, for example). And if you're getting into that level of detail anyway, you might as well just modify the query string based on the fields you do have, as I've outlined above.

Hope this helps!

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