Best places for a life category

POST

/acg/best-places

curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/acg/best-places \
  -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "date": "1990-05-15", "time": "15:30:00", "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv", "category": "career", "countries": [ "UA", "PL" ], "orbKm": 1126, "limit": 25, "sort": "net" }'

const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/acg/best-places', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'X-Api-Key': process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "date": "1990-05-15",
    "time": "15:30:00",
    "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv",
    "category": "career",
    "countries": [
      "UA",
      "PL"
    ],
    "orbKm": 1126,
    "limit": 25,
    "sort": "net"
  }),
});
const { ok, data, error } = await res.json();
if (!ok) throw new Error(error.message);
console.log(data);

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    'https://api.astroway.info/v1/acg/best-places',
    headers={'X-Api-Key': os.environ['ASTROWAY_API_KEY'], 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
    json={
      'date': "1990-05-15",
      'time': "15:30:00",
      'timezone': "Europe/Kyiv",
      'category': "career",
      'countries': [
        "UA",
        "PL"
      ],
      'orbKm': 1126,
      'limit': 25,
      'sort': "net"
    },
)
result = r.json()
if not result['ok']:
    raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])
print(result['data'])

<?php
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);
$r = $client->post('acg/best-places', [
    'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')],
    'json' => [
        'date' => '1990-05-15',
        'time' => '15:30:00',
        'timezone' => 'Europe/Kyiv',
        'category' => 'career',
        'countries' => ['UA', 'PL'],
        'orbKm' => 1126,
        'limit' => 25,
        'sort' => 'net',
    ],
]);
$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);
if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);
print_r($result['data']);

Rank cities against the astrocartography lines of a chart for one of the 19 life categories. Distance to a line is computed from the body hour angle and altitude rather than against a discretised polyline, so it is exact: the distance to a horizon line IS the altitude in degrees of arc, and a meridian line offset is the hour angle times cos(latitude). Supportive and challenging totals are returned separately with every contributing line and its distance, so a strong-but-turbulent city is distinguishable from an average one. Bundled GeoNames set of 34,028 places above 15,000 people. Not geocoding: a smaller town is absent from the ranking rather than ranked poorly, and an arbitrary place name cannot be resolved.

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuth

Parameters

Query Parameters

fields

string

Comma-separated dotted paths, relative to data, to keep in the response. A path is applied to every element of an array, so planets.name means the name of each planet. Paths that match nothing come back in _fields_unmatched; a list where nothing matches at all is a 400, because an empty object would be a confident wrong answer.

Example

planets.name,planets.longitude

precision

integer

<= 15

Round every non-integer number in the response to this many decimal places. Integers are left alone, because an id is not a measurement. Ecliptic longitudes ship with fourteen decimals by default; 2 is about a tenth of an arcminute.

Example

Request Body^required

application/json

Birth data plus a life category. Birth coordinates are optional and unused for the ranking: astrocartography lines are a property of the birth moment, not of the birth place.

object

date required

string

/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/

time required

string

/^\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}$/

timezoneOffset

Hours from UTC at the given moment, not minutes. Fractional zones are hours too: 5.5 for India, 5.75 for Nepal, -3.5 for Newfoundland. Defaults to 0, meaning UTC. Ignored when timezone is sent.

number

0 nullable >= -14 <= 14

timezone

IANA zone name such as Europe/Kyiv, or auto to look the zone up from latitude and longitude. The server takes the offset that zone kept at this local date and time, summer time included, and uses it in place of timezoneOffset. A clock time that happened twice takes the first occurrence; one skipped when clocks went forward takes the offset from before the change. Abbreviations such as EST are refused. Before 1970 the tz database is not reliable for every place, so send timezoneOffset when the local clock is known.

string

latitude required

number

>= -90 <= 90

longitude required

number

>= -180 <= 180

houseSystem

string

default: P

Allowed values: P K R C E W B M O A T V D F G H I i L N Q S U X Y

name

string

city

string

zodiacType

string

Allowed values: tropical sidereal

ayanamsaId

number

nullable

ayanamsa

Sidereal school by name. Lahiri when omitted. Equivalent to ayanamsaId; send either.

string

Allowed values: fagan-bradley lahiri de-luce raman krishnamurti kp yukteshwar jn-bhasin true-citra djwhal-khul

cosmogram

boolean

category required

One of the 19 ACG life categories. The list is at GET /v1/acg/categories.

string

countries

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes to restrict the search to. Omit to search the whole bundled list.

Array<string>

<= 50 items

minPopulation

Floor on city population. The bundled set starts at 15000, so a lower value changes nothing.

integer

>= 15000

orbKm

How far a line reaches, kilometres. Default 1126, which is the 700 miles Jim Lewis used.

number

>= 100 <= 3000

limit

How many cities to return. Default 25.

integer

>= 1 <= 100

minSeparationKm

Keep returned cities at least this far apart, kilometres. Default 300. An ACG line is a curve, so without thinning the top of the ranking is the densest stretch of one line rather than a set of places. Set 0 to disable and see every city in score order.

number

nullable <= 5000

sort

net (default) ranks on supportive minus challenging. supportive ignores the challenging side when ordering, though it is still reported.

string

Allowed values: net supportive

Example

{
  "date": "1990-05-15",
  "time": "15:30:00",
  "timezone": "Europe/Kyiv",
  "category": "career",
  "countries": [
    "UA",
    "PL"
  ],
  "orbKm": 1126,
  "limit": 25,
  "sort": "net"
}

Responses

200

Successful calculation

application/json

object

boolean

data

object

type

string

nullable

Example

{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "type": "acg-best-places",
    "category": {
      "id": "career",
      "name": "Кар’єра",
      "description": "Професійна реалізація, посада, репутація в галузі.",
      "language": "uk",
      "lines": [
        {
          "planetId": 0,
          "planet": "Sun",
          "angle": "MC",
          "weight": 3,
          "polarity": "supportive"
        }
      ]
    },
    "orbKm": 1126,
    "sort": "net",
    "minSeparationKm": 300,
    "suppressedAsTooClose": 345,
    "maxPossibleSupportive": 12,
    "pool": {
      "citiesConsidered": 760,
      "citiesWithAnyLine": 352,
      "minPopulation": 15000,
      "countries": [
        "UA"
      ]
    },
    "count": 7,
    "places": [
      {
        "name": "Świnoujście",
        "country": "Poland",
        "countryCode": "PL",
        "admin1Code": "87",
        "lat": 53.9105,
        "lon": 14.2471,
        "population": 40919,
        "timezone": "Europe/Warsaw",
        "supportive": 1.6609,
        "challenging": 0,
        "net": 1.6609,
        "supportivePercent": 13.8,
        "lines": [
          {
            "planetId": 0,
            "planetName": "Sun",
            "angle": "MC",
            "weight": 3,
            "polarity": "supportive",
            "distanceKm": 503,
            "contribution": 1.6609
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "dataset": {
      "source": "GeoNames cities15000",
      "url": "https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities15000.zip",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
      "downloaded": "2026-08-05",
      "count": 34028,
      "note": "A fixed list of populated places above 15000 people. This endpoint does not geocode: a smaller town is absent from the ranking rather than ranked poorly, and an arbitrary place name cannot be resolved. Use POST /v1/acg-zones with your own coordinates to score a specific point."
    },
    "attribution": {
      "source": "GeoNames",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.geonames.org/",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
      "licenceUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
      "notice": "City names, coordinates and populations from the GeoNames geographical database, used under CC BY 4.0. Displaying this data requires carrying the same credit."
    }
  }
}

400

Validation error

application/json

Example

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_INPUT",
    "message": "Validation failed: date: Date must be YYYY-MM-DD",
    "details": [
      {
        "path": "date",
        "message": "Date must be YYYY-MM-DD"
      }
    ]
  }
}

401

Missing or invalid API key

application/json

Example

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_API_KEY",
    "message": "Invalid API key"
  }
}

Корисно?

Countries available for ranking

Best places for a life category

Authorizations

Parameters

Query Parameters

Example

Example

Request Body required

Example

Responses

200

Example

400

Example

401

Example

Request Body^required