Muhurat — Name change

POST

/vedic/muhurat/name-change

• Production

Auspicious-window scanner for legal or sacramental name change (uses Namkaran-derived rules with widened tithi set). Preferred nakshatras: Hasta/Chitra/Swati/Pushya/Anuradha/Revati/U.Phalguni/U.Ashadha/U.Bhadrapada.

Authorizations

• ApiKeyAuth

Code Samples

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/muhurat/name-change \
  -H "X-Api-Key: aw_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "search_window_start": "2026-05-15", "search_window_end": "2026-05-31", "latitude": 28.61, "longitude": 77.21, "timezoneOffset": 5.5 }'

Node.js

const res = await fetch('https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/muhurat/name-change', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'X-Api-Key': process.env.ASTROWAY_API_KEY,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "search_window_start": "2026-05-15",
    "search_window_end": "2026-05-31",
    "latitude": 28.61,
    "longitude": 77.21,
    "timezoneOffset": 5.5
  }),
});
const { ok, data, error } = await res.json();
if (!ok) throw new Error(error.message);
console.log(data);

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    'https://api.astroway.info/v1/vedic/muhurat/name-change',
    headers={'X-Api-Key': os.environ['ASTROWAY_API_KEY'], 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
    json={
      'search_window_start': "2026-05-15",
      'search_window_end': "2026-05-31",
      'latitude': 28.61,
      'longitude': 77.21,
      'timezoneOffset': 5.5
    },
)
result = r.json()
if not result['ok']:
    raise RuntimeError(result['error']['message'])
print(result['data'])

PHP

<?php
use GuzzleHttp\Client;

$client = new Client(['base_uri' => 'https://api.astroway.info/v1/']);
$r = $client->post('vedic/muhurat/name-change', [
    'headers' => ['X-Api-Key' => getenv('ASTROWAY_API_KEY')],
    'json' => [
        'search_window_start' => '2026-05-15',
        'search_window_end' => '2026-05-31',
        'latitude' => 28.61,
        'longitude' => 77.21,
        'timezoneOffset' => 5.5,
    ],
]);
$result = json_decode($r->getBody(), true);
if (!$result['ok']) throw new \RuntimeException($result['error']['message']);
print_r($result['data']);

Request Body ^required

object

search_window_start

required

string

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

search_window_end

string

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

latitude

number

0 nullable

longitude

number

0 nullable

timezoneOffset

number

0 nullable

ayanamsaId

number

nullable

topN

integer

default: 10 >= 1 <= 60

key

additional properties

nullable

Example

{
  "search_window_start": "2026-05-15",
  "search_window_end": "2026-05-31",
  "latitude": 28.61,
  "longitude": 77.21,
  "timezoneOffset": 5.5
}

Responses

200

Successful calculation

object

ok

boolean

Example

true

data

object

activity

string

auspiciousWindows

Array

400

Validation error

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

Example

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