ekelen / tarot-api

Simple REST API for the tarot cards of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Tarot Card API

For all your cybermysticism needs. 🔮

Provides information parsed from AE Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, meeting the OpenAPI 3 spec. This was created as a friendly introduction to REST APIs.

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API Usage

1. See full documentation + play with the API on SwaggerHub

2. See below for quick start

Quick start

JS:

fetch("https://tarotapi.dev/api/v1/cards/random?n=10")
  .then(function (response) {
    return response.json();
  })
  .then(function (response) {
    // handle ten random cards
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    // handle what went wrong
  });

Condensed documentation

GET path	Result	Params
/api/v1/ or /api/v1/cards	return all cards
/api/v1/cards/:name_short	return card with specified name_short	minors: /swac, /wa02, ..., /cupa, /pequ, /waqu, /swki, majors /ar01, /ar02, .../ar[n]
/api/v1/cards/search	search all cards	q={text}, meaning={text}, meaning_rev={text}
/api/v1/cards/random	get random card(s)	optional n={integer <= 78}

Examples:

Get all cards with word "peace" in meaning (reversed or upright):

https://tarotapi.dev/api/v1/cards/search?meaning=peace

Get 10 random cards:

https://tarotapi.dev/api/v1/cards/random?n=10

Get the Knight of Wands:

https://tarotapi.dev/api/v1/cards/wakn

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💻 Local development

(Novice-friendly!)

1. You are welcome to just grab the JSON file that serves as the data source and use it for your own projects.

2. Clone or fork this repository and install dependencies locally. Requires Node 10.0.0 or higher, and npm 6.0.0 or higher.

git clone https://github.com/ekelen/tarot-api.git
# or [e-mail]:ekelen/tarot-api.git

# -OR- click fork on this project's Github page, then:

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/tarot-api.git

Then:

cd tarot-api

npm install

npm run dev

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External resources

If you are looking for images to complement your tarot app, the Rider Waite 1909 deck is public domain. You can find images of the cards here: https://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/xr/index.htm

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🗞 Updates

2023/12/19

• 'Tis the season for a nice domain name and a more reliable server. You can now use https://tarotapi.dev (and https://tarotapi.dev/api/v1 etc). The old onrender URL should still work (faster).

2023/05/12

• Important render.com stopped supporting my pretty URL (👎), so the project must be accessed at https://tarot-api-3hv5.onrender.com/.

2023/12/30

• Important Heroku stopped offering free dynos (👎), so you must replace all references to https://rws-cards-api.herokuapp.com to tarot-api.onrender.com https://tarot-api-3hv5.onrender.com (see May update) if you are using this API in your app.

2022/06/18

• Updated Swagger docs
• Added a courts endpoint (no specific rank parameter required)
• Bumped nodemon
• require typo fix

2021/01/25

• Linted, finished, and published the Swagger documentation
• Removed unused packages
• Reorganized source files to remove extraneous files from build
• Updated other documentation

2020/10/17

• Now supports CORS, so you can use this pretty much anywhere 🧙‍♂️