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+First, create a token to access the ADS api
+
+http://adsabs.github.io/help/api/
+
+Copy this token into a file called .ads/dev_key
+
+A sample driver looks like:
+
+import author_network as an
+
+names = ["Hix, W",
+         "Calder, A",
+         "Dubey, A",
+         "Fuller, G",
+         "Kasen, D",
+         "Mezzacappa, A",
+         "Roberts, L",
+         "Steiner, A",
+         "Burrows, A",
+         "Couch, S",
+         "Fryer, C",
+         "Nonaka, A",
+         "Messer, O",
+         "Reddy, S",
+         "Surman, R",
+         "Zingale, M"]
+         
+an.create_network(names, year=2015)