2020-12-23 · tech announcement
As part of my work with transits, I wanted an easy way to see a bunch of data, as processed by the server, without waiting until I put together the full markup. So, as a quick little hack, but also a learning experiment, I introduced the ability to request transit pages (and natal chart pages!) in plain text.
On the backend, albeit a bit heterodoxically, we use the fantastic Servant library to describe the endpoints we support. As part of the HTTP standard,
one can ask a server for a specific content type using the Accept header, and Servant
makes it really easy to declare, at the type level, which content types a given endpoint
supports. From that, it was a hop and a skip to implement a "text mode" for our endpoints, although they can only be obtained through applications (like postman
or the humble terminal) that allow you to set the Accept header of a request.
Here's an example (only about half of the output is shown):
curl -H "Accept: text/plain" "http://localhost:3000/transits?at=2020-12-22T02:14:58.450Z&location=Tegucigalpa%2C+Francisco+Morazán%2C+Honduras&month=1&day=6&year=1989&hour=12&minute=30&day-part=am&lat=14.0932&lng=-87.2013" Freenatalchart.xyz ================== Transits for: 2020-12-22 02:14:58 UTC Tegucigalpa (87w16, 14n5) Natal Planet Positions ---------------------- Planet |House|Longitude|Speed |Latitude|Declination|Zodiac Longitude Sun |3 |285.9234 |1.0197 |-0.0001 |-22.4930 |♑️ 15° 55' 24" Moon |3 |266.1612 |13.6359 |-4.8030 |-28.1881 |♐️ 26° 9' 40" Mercury |4 |304.6572 |1.2569 |-1.3025 |-20.3661 |♒️ 4° 39' 26" Venus |2 |264.3876 |1.2513 |0.5999 |-22.7245 |♐️ 24° 23' 15" Mars |6 |22.9268 |0.5246 |0.6525 |9.5214 |♈️ 22° 55' 37" Jupiter (r) |8 |56.4284 |-0.0480 |-0.8774 |18.5050 |♉️ 26° 25' 42" Saturn |3 |276.2138 |0.1173 |0.7122 |-22.5856 |♑️ 6° 12' 50" Uranus |3 |272.0677 |0.0592 |-0.2201 |-23.6468 |♑️ 2° 4' 4" Neptune |3 |280.1213 |0.0378 |0.9024 |-22.1570 |♑️ 10° 7' 17" Pluto |1 |224.6882 |0.0238 |15.6315 |-1.2732 |♏️ 14° 41' 17" Mean Node |5 |337.5092 |-0.0529 |0.0000 |-8.7536 |♓️ 7° 30' 33" Lilith |12 |176.3080 |0.1109 |-1.6621 |-0.0575 |♍️ 26° 18' 29" Chiron (r) |9 |93.5200 |-0.0638 |-6.8491 |16.5492 |♋️ 3° 31' 12" Transiting Planet Positions --------------------------- Planet |House|Longitude|Speed |Latitude|Declination|Zodiac Longitude Sun |3 |270.6879 |1.0185 |-0.0002 |-23.4353 |♑️ 0° 41' 17" Moon |6 |1.8697 |12.0756 |-5.1709 |-4.0006 |♈️ 1° 52' 11" Mercury |3 |271.7927 |1.5879 |-1.6027 |-25.0273 |♑️ 1° 47' 34" Venus |2 |248.0143 |1.2505 |1.0473 |-20.6087 |♐️ 8° 0' 52" Mars |6 |23.3362 |0.3776 |0.6496 |9.6685 |♈️ 23° 20' 10" Jupiter |4 |300.5587 |0.2205 |-0.4806 |-20.4983 |♒️ 0° 33' 31" Saturn |4 |300.5218 |0.1085 |-0.3788 |-20.4069 |♒️ 0° 31' 19" Uranus (r) |7 |36.9528 |-0.0194 |-0.4553 |13.4034 |♉️ 6° 57' 10" Neptune |5 |348.3160 |0.0132 |-1.0856 |-5.6192 |♓️ 18° 18' 57" Pluto |3 |293.8720 |0.0311 |-1.1825 |-22.4930 |♑️ 23° 52' 19" Mean Node |8 |79.3827 |-0.0530 |0.0000 |23.0124 |♊️ 19° 22' 58" Lilith |7 |36.8806 |0.1113 |-3.4814 |10.5182 |♉️ 6° 52' 50" Chiron |6 |4.9583 |0.0056 |2.5787 |4.3370 |♈️ 4° 57' 30" Planetary Transits ------------------ All Aspects to Natal Planets ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aspecting|Aspect |Aspected |Angle |Orb Sun |Conjunction |Moon |4.5267 |4.5267 Sun |Conjunction |Venus |6.3003 |6.3003
Since this is a technologist-oriented feature, all dates are shown in universal time (UTC,) and all angles are shown as double precision floating point numbers -- except for the longitude of planets, which is also shown as a more traditional zodiac longitude, for reference.