Full BaZi chart
curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/bazi/chart \ -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "date": "1990-05-15", "time": "14:30:00", "timezoneOffset": 8 }'const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/bazi/chart', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, body: JSON.stringify({ "date": "1990-05-15", "time": "14:30:00", "timezoneOffset": 8 }),});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/bazi/chart', headers={'X-Api-Key': os.environ['ASTROWAY_API_KEY'], 'Content-Type': 'application/json'}, json={ 'date': "1990-05-15", 'time': "14:30:00", 'timezoneOffset': 8 },)result = r.json()if not result['ok']: raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])print(result['data'])<?phpuse GuzzleHttp\Client;
$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);$r = $client->post('bazi/chart', [ 'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')], 'json' => [ 'date' => '1990-05-15', 'time' => '14:30:00', 'timezoneOffset' => 8, ],]);$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);print_r($result['data']);The four pillars with everything the classical apparatus reads off them in one call: hidden stems, na yin, the twelve stages of the day master, element balance over all eight characters, the strength verdict, symbolic stars from both reference pillars, and the branch and stem interactions. Localised by language. Pass longitude with trueSolarTime true to cut the double-hour from the sun over the birth place; the correction reaches the day and hour only, never the year and month, which turn on world instants.
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Section titled “Query Parameters ”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.
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planets.name,planets.longitudeRound 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.
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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.
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{ "date": "1990-05-15", "time": "14:30:00", "timezoneOffset": 8}Responses
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{ "ok": true, "data": { "solarYear": 1990, "pillars": [ { "name": "year", "stem": "Geng", "branch": "Wu", "pillar": "Geng-Wu", "animal": "Horse", "animalName": "Кінь", "stemElement": "Metal", "stemElementName": "Метал", "hiddenStems": [ { "stem": "Ding", "stemIndex": 3, "element": "Fire", "yin": true, "role": "principal", "weight": 0.7 }, { "stem": "Ji", "stemIndex": 5, "element": "Earth", "yin": true, "role": "middle", "weight": 0.3 } ], "naYin": { "chinese": "路旁土", "pinyin": "Lu Pang Tu", "english": "Roadside Earth", "element": "Earth", "jiaziIndex": 6, "elementName": "Земля" }, "dayMasterStage": { "stage": "bath", "chinese": "沐浴", "name": "Обмивання" } }, { "name": "month", "stem": "Xin", "branch": "Si", "pillar": "Xin-Si", "animal": "Snake", "animalName": "Змія", "stemElement": "Metal", "stemElementName": "Метал", "hiddenStems": [ { "stem": "Bing", "stemIndex": 2, "element": "Fire", "yin": false, "role": "principal", "weight": 0.6 }, { "stem": "Geng", "stemIndex": 6, "element": "Metal", "yin": false, "role": "middle", "weight": 0.3 }, { "stem": "Wu", "stemIndex": 4, "element": "Earth", "yin": false, "role": "residual", "weight": 0.1 } ], "naYin": { "chinese": "白蠟金", "pinyin": "Bai La Jin", "english": "White Wax Metal", "element": "Metal", "jiaziIndex": 17, "elementName": "Метал" }, "dayMasterStage": { "stage": "growth", "chinese": "長生", "name": "Зростання" } }, { "name": "day", "stem": "Geng", "branch": "Chen", "pillar": "Geng-Chen", "animal": "Dragon", "animalName": "Дракон", "stemElement": "Metal", "stemElementName": "Метал", "hiddenStems": [ { "stem": "Wu", "stemIndex": 4, "element": "Earth", "yin": false, "role": "principal", "weight": 0.6 }, { "stem": "Yi", "stemIndex": 1, "element": "Wood", "yin": true, "role": "residual", "weight": 0.3 }, { "stem": "Gui", "stemIndex": 9, "element": "Water", "yin": true, "role": "middle", "weight": 0.1 } ], "naYin": { "chinese": "白蠟金", "pinyin": "Bai La Jin", "english": "White Wax Metal", "element": "Metal", "jiaziIndex": 16, "elementName": "Метал" }, "dayMasterStage": { "stage": "nurture", "chinese": "養", "name": "Виношування" } }, { "name": "hour", "stem": "Gui", "branch": "Wei", "pillar": "Gui-Wei", "animal": "Goat", "animalName": "Коза", "stemElement": "Water", "stemElementName": "Вода", "hiddenStems": [ { "stem": "Ji", "stemIndex": 5, "element": "Earth", "yin": true, "role": "principal", "weight": 0.6 }, { "stem": "Ding", "stemIndex": 3, "element": "Fire", "yin": true, "role": "residual", "weight": 0.3 }, { "stem": "Yi", "stemIndex": 1, "element": "Wood", "yin": true, "role": "middle", "weight": 0.1 } ], "naYin": { "chinese": "楊柳木", "pinyin": "Yang Liu Mu", "english": "Willow Wood", "element": "Wood", "jiaziIndex": 19, "elementName": "Дерево" }, "dayMasterStage": { "stage": "cap", "chinese": "冠帶", "name": "Повноліття" } } ], "dayMaster": { "stem": "Geng", "element": "Metal", "elementName": "Метал", "polarity": "Ян" }, "elementBalance": { "visible": { "Wood": 0, "Fire": 2, "Earth": 2, "Metal": 3, "Water": 1 }, "withHiddenStems": { "Wood": 2, "Fire": 3, "Earth": 4, "Metal": 4, "Water": 2 }, "weighted": { "Wood": 0.4, "Fire": 1.6, "Earth": 1.6, "Metal": 3.3, "Water": 1.1 }, "dominantElement": "Metal", "missingElements": [], "weighting": "Each branch contributes one character split among the stems it shelters: 1.0 alone, 0.7/0.3 for two, 0.6/0.3/0.1 for three (本气/中气/余气). The membership is canonical; the split is a stated convention, and the day-count 人元司令 scheme distributes the same characters differently.", "dominantElementName": "Метал", "missingElementNames": [] }, "strength": { "framework": "扶抑 support-and-suppress", "supportScore": 3.9, "drainScore": 3.1, "supportRatio": 0.557, "verdict": "strong", "hasSeason": false, "hasRoot": true, "hasAllies": true, "favourableElements": [ "Water", "Wood", "Fire" ], "unfavourableElements": [ "Earth", "Metal" ], "caveat": "One framework of several, and the thresholds are ours. 扶抑 weighs support against drain; 調候, 通關, 病藥 and 專旺 read the same chart by other rules and can reach the opposite verdict, and a chart near the boundary is exactly where they part. Two limits worth stating plainly: the ratio counts the month branch exactly like the other three, where the tradition weighs the month above all, and the 0.55 / 0.45 cut points are a convention of this API rather than a canonical rule. The three classical criteria are reported unweighted beside the ratio, so a reader who weighs the month can reach their own verdict from the same inputs." }, "symbolicStars": { "byYearPillar": [ { "key": "nobleman", "chinese": "天乙貴人", "pinyin": "Tian Yi Gui Ren", "english": "Heavenly Nobleman", "pillars": [ "hour" ], "meaning": "help arriving from outside, the patron and the timely intervention", "schoolNote": "The 三命通會 reading for 庚 (甲戊庚牛羊). 淵海子平 puts the 庚 nobleman at 午 and 寅 instead; that reading is reported separately." }, { "key": "noblemanAlt", "chinese": "天乙貴人", "pinyin": "Tian Yi Gui Ren", "english": "Heavenly Nobleman (淵海子平 reading)", "pillars": [ "year" ], "meaning": "help arriving from outside, the patron and the timely intervention", "schoolNote": "The 淵海子平 and 星平會海 reading for 庚 (庚辛逢馬虎). The 三命通會 reading is reported under `nobleman`." } ], "byDayPillar": [ { "key": "canopy", "chinese": "華蓋", "pinyin": "Hua Gai", "english": "Canopy", "pillars": [ "day" ], "meaning": "solitude and study, the scholar and the recluse" }, { "key": "nobleman", "chinese": "天乙貴人", "pinyin": "Tian Yi Gui Ren", "english": "Heavenly Nobleman", "pillars": [ "hour" ], "meaning": "help arriving from outside, the patron and the timely intervention", "schoolNote": "The 三命通會 reading for 庚 (甲戊庚牛羊). 淵海子平 puts the 庚 nobleman at 午 and 寅 instead; that reading is reported separately." }, { "key": "noblemanAlt", "chinese": "天乙貴人", "pinyin": "Tian Yi Gui Ren", "english": "Heavenly Nobleman (淵海子平 reading)", "pillars": [ "year" ], "meaning": "help arriving from outside, the patron and the timely intervention", "schoolNote": "The 淵海子平 and 星平會海 reading for 庚 (庚辛逢馬虎). The 三命通會 reading is reported under `nobleman`." } ] }, "interactions": [ { "type": "sixHarmony", "chinese": "六合", "english": "Six Harmony", "pillars": [ "year", "hour" ], "members": [ "Wu", "Wei" ], "producesElement": "Earth", "schoolNote": "The Wu-Wei harmony is given as Earth here; other transmissions read it as the sun-and-moon pair and assign no element." } ], "stageSchool": "classical", "language": "uk", "notes": [], "methodology": "The four pillars with everything the classical apparatus reads off them: hidden stems, na yin, the twelve stages of the day master, the element balance over all eight characters, the 扶抑 strength verdict, the symbolic stars from both reference pillars, and the branch and stem interactions. Where a transmission splits, both readings ship and the split is named at the field.", "source": "淵海子平, 三命通會, 子平真詮: all public domain", "disclaimer": "BaZi pillars use the canonical 60-jiazi cycle, anchored at 1990-01-01 = Bing-Yin. Year and month boundaries are the exact Lichun and 節 instants from the ephemeris, stated in China Standard Time; pass time and timezoneOffset for births near a boundary. Day and hour follow the birthplace clock, with the day rolling at 23:00 local." }}Validation error
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{ "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" } ] }}Missing or invalid API key
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{ "ok": false, "error": { "code": "INVALID_API_KEY", "message": "Invalid API key" }}