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Verify Vimshottari Dasha Against DrikPanchang: A Developer Guide
Verify your Vimshottari Dasha API against DrikPanchang. Spot timezone-edge and year-convention bugs that drift Mahadasha boundaries by 60 days.
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Insights, tutorials, and updates from the RoxyAPI team
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Build a PHP Insight App: Astrology, Vedic, Tarot APIs
Build a PHP astrology, Vedic kundli, and tarot app with the new roxyapi/sdk Composer package. Laravel, Symfony, vanilla PHP, one API key.
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Astrology, Vedic, Tarot UI Component Library for React
Open source UI component library for astrology, Vedic, KP, tarot, numerology, human design, biorhythm, I Ching and more. 63 components for React, Vue, Next.js, HTML.
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Ship AI Prompt Files for Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot
Compare CLAUDE.md, Cursor rules, Copilot instructions, and Windsurf rules. What goes in each prompt file for API consumers. By RoxyAPI.
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MCP vs Function Calling vs LangChain: AI Agent Guide
Comparing MCP, OpenAI function calling, and LangChain tools for AI agents. Schema, transport, auth, and when to choose each. By RoxyAPI.
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Add Tarot Readings to a Shopify Store with App Proxy
Add a tarot card of the day, daily horoscope, kundli, and post-checkout numerology to a Shopify store via App Proxy. One pattern for all 12 domains.
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Vikram Samvat to Gregorian: Hindu Calendar for Vedic Charts
Convert Vikram Samvat lunar months, tithi, and paksha into a Gregorian birth date for the Vedic chart API. Adhika masa, kshaya masa, regional variants.
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Birth-Time Rectification API: Handling 15 Minute Uncertainty
Sweep the natal endpoint across a plus or minus 15 minute window, separate stable features from collapsing ones, surface confidence by RoxyAPI.
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AGENTS.md vs llms.txt vs ai-plugin.json vs agent-card.json
Four agent-discovery files, four different consumers. Compare AGENTS.md, llms.txt, ai-plugin.json, and agent-card.json with byte sizes and shipping rules.
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Why two numerology APIs return different Life Path numbers
Three independent reasons numerology APIs disagree on the same input: Master Number stop rules, Unicode normalisation, and reduction order.
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Whole Sign Fallback at Polar Latitudes for Birth Chart APIs
Placidus and Koch fail above 66 degrees north. Here is what RoxyAPI returns at the cutoff and how to override to Whole Sign for traditional charts.
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Retrograde Station Detection: Stationary Point Edge Cases
Why naive day-step retrograde detection misses planetary stations, and how to detect zero crossings of longitude velocity for the astrology API.
Featured Posts
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Best Tarot APIs for Developers 2026: Features and Pricing
Compare the best tarot APIs for developers: 78-card decks, spreads, seeded draws, card images, MCP, and flat pricing reviewed by RoxyAPI.
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Best Vedic Astrology API for Kundli and Panchang 2026
Compare RoxyAPI, AstrologyAPI, and Prokerala for kundli, panchang, dasha, and KP: fact-checked features, pricing, and real cost math.