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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.


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


💻 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 [email protected]: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

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


🗞 Updates

2023/12/19

2023/05/12

2023/12/30

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 🧙‍♂️