astroway

Official Python SDK for the AstroWay API — natal charts, synastry, transits, Vedic dashas, Tarot, Numerology, Human Design, AI horoscopes. Sync + async, type-hinted, retry-aware.

700+ endpoints. Synchronous and asynchronous clients with the same surface. Built-in retry on 408/409/429/5xx with exponential backoff. Stainless-style error hierarchy (AuthenticationError / RateLimitError / BadRequestError / …). Just httpx + pydantic under the hood.

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Install

pip install astroway
# or with uv
uv add astroway
# or with poetry
poetry add astroway

Get an API key at https://api.astroway.info/dashboard/sign-up — 10 000 credits/month free, no card required. Each endpoint costs 5–500 credits depending on what it computes (pricing).

Requires Python 3.9+.

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Quick start

Synchronous

from astroway import Astroway, BirthData

aw = Astroway(api_key="aw_live_...")

chart = aw.chart.compute(BirthData(
    date="1990-07-14",
    time="14:30:00",
    timezone_offset=3,
    latitude=50.45,
    longitude=30.52,
    house_system="P",
))

asc = chart["angles"]["asc"]
print(f"ASC: {asc['sign']} {asc['degree']:.2f}°")

Asynchronous

import asyncio
from astroway import AsyncAstroway

async def main() -> None:
    async with AsyncAstroway(api_key="aw_live_...") as aw:
        chart = await aw.chart.compute({
            "date": "1990-07-14",
            "time": "14:30:00",
            "timezoneOffset": 3,
            "latitude": 50.45,
            "longitude": 30.52,
        })
        print(chart["angles"]["asc"])

asyncio.run(main())

The SDK exposes 103 typed namespaces / 623 methods auto-generated from the OpenAPI spec — aw.synastry.aspect_grid({...}), aw.bazi.day_master({...}), aw.vedic.dashas_vimshottari_maha({...}), etc. The { ok, data, error } envelope is unwrapped for you.

Top-4 categories (chart, synastry, transits, vedic dashas) ship Pydantic v2 request models for IDE autocomplete + validation: BirthData, SynastryRequest, TransitsRequest, VedicDashaRequest. Pass either a model or a dict — both work everywhere.

Sync and async clients share an identical surface — both expose the same namespaces, plus low-level aw.request(method, path, body=…) / aw.post(path, body=…) escape hatches.

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Common workflows

Synastry

from astroway import BirthData, SynastryRequest

result = aw.synastry.compute(SynastryRequest(
    chart1=BirthData(date="1990-07-14", time="14:30:00", timezone_offset=3, latitude=50.45, longitude=30.52),
    chart2=BirthData(date="1992-03-22", time="09:15:00", timezone_offset=2, latitude=48.85, longitude=2.35),
))
print(f"Score: {result['compatibility']['score']}/100 ({result['compatibility']['label']})")

Transits to natal

from astroway import TransitsRequest

transits = aw.transits.compute(TransitsRequest(
    date="1990-07-14", time="14:30:00", timezone_offset=3, latitude=50.45, longitude=30.52,
    target_date="2027-01-01",
))

Vedic Vimshottari Mahadasha

from astroway import VedicDashaRequest

dasha = aw.vedic.dashas_vimshottari_maha(VedicDashaRequest(
    date="1985-07-22", time="06:45:00", timezone_offset=5.5,
    latitude=19.07, longitude=72.87,
))

Tarot daily card

card = aw.tarot.rider_waite_daily({"seed": 42})

Human Design

hd = aw.human_design.compute({
    "date": "1990-07-14", "time": "14:30:00", "timezoneOffset": 3, "latitude": 50.45, "longitude": 30.52,
})
print(f"{hd['type']} - {hd['strategy']} - {hd['authority']}")

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Error handling

The SDK raises typed subclasses of ApiError. Catch order matters — most specific first:

from astroway import (
    Astroway, ApiError,
    AuthenticationError, RateLimitError, BadRequestError,
)

try:
    aw.post("/chart", body=body)
except RateLimitError as e:
    time.sleep(e.retry_after_seconds or 60)
    # retry once...
except AuthenticationError:
    raise RuntimeError("Rotate your AstroWay API key")
except BadRequestError as e:
    print("Validation failed:", e.body)
except ApiError as e:
    print(f"API error {e.status} ({e.code}): {e!s} [request_id={e.request_id}]")

Full hierarchy:

• ApiError (base)
  • APIConnectionError
    • APITimeoutError
  • BadRequestError (400)
  • AuthenticationError (401)
  • PermissionDeniedError (403)
  • NotFoundError (404)
  • UnprocessableEntityError (422)
  • RateLimitError (429) — carries retry_after_seconds
  • InternalServerError (5xx)

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Configuration

aw = Astroway(
    api_key="aw_live_...",                  # required
    base_url="https://api.astroway.info/v1", # override for staging / self-hosted
    auth_scheme="header",                    # "header" (X-Api-Key, default) or "bearer" (Authorization: Bearer)
    timeout=30.0,                            # per-request timeout in seconds
    retry={
        "max_retries": 2,                    # total attempts = 1 + max_retries
        "base_delay_ms": 250,
        "max_delay_ms": 30_000,
        "retryable_statuses": frozenset({408, 409, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504}),
    },
    default_headers={"X-Trace-Id": "..."},
)

The default retry honors Retry-After (seconds or HTTP-date) on 429 responses.

Set retry={"max_retries": 0} to disable retries entirely.

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Authentication

Two equivalent auth schemes — pick whichever your stack prefers:

• Header (default): X-Api-Key: aw_live_... — same convention as curl/Postman examples.
• Bearer: Authorization: Bearer aw_live_... — same convention as Stripe/OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs.

Set via auth_scheme="bearer" in the constructor.

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Privacy

The SDK does not phone home. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no usage reporting. The only network traffic the SDK originates is the AstroWay API calls you ask it to make.

Outgoing requests carry two identifying headers so the AstroWay backend can distinguish SDK traffic from raw HTTP traffic in its own logs:

• User-Agent: astroway-sdk-python/<version> (Python/<py-version>; <platform>)
• X-Astroway-Channel: sdk-py

Neither carries a session ID, machine fingerprint, or anything personal.

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Stability

Since 1.0.0 (2026-05-11) this package follows strict SemVer:

• Public names in astroway.__all__ stable inside 1.x. Removing or narrowing requires a 2.0.0 major bump with deprecation period.
• Method signatures stable inside 1.x. Adding a new keyword-only parameter (with default) is non-breaking; reordering or renaming is breaking.
• Body shape stable inside 1.minor. Tightening (constraints, enum) ships in patches; new required keys require a minor bump.
• API version vs SDK version are independent. SDK 1.x follows its own semver; the API itself sits at /v1/.
• Python 3.10+ required since 1.0.0. Need 3.9? Stay on 0.x (will receive critical security patches).

Migration from 0.1.0a1 … 0.1.0rc1 to 0.1.0

0.1.0 freezes the public surface. No breaking changes vs 0.1.0rc1 — every export, namespace, error class, and option added across alphas / betas / RCs ships unchanged. The freeze means future 0.1.x patches will not narrow types or remove names; that level of change requires a 0.2.0 minor bump.

Coming from	Action
0.1.0a1 (manual aw.post('/chart', body=...))	Switch to typed namespaces — aw.chart.compute(body), aw.synastry.aspect_grid(body), etc. The escape hatch (aw.request(...)) still works.
0.1.0a2 … a3 (no idempotency / errors)	Pick up automatic Idempotency-Key on POSTs, error.request_id / error.credits_remaining getters, Pydantic models for top categories.
0.1.0a4 … a6 (no helpers)	from astroway.helpers import BirthDateTime for from_city() / from_coordinates().
0.1.0b1 … b3 (no streaming / cache / mock)	for chunk in aw.charts.compute(...).stream(), Astroway(cache=MemoryCache()), from astroway.testing import MockAstroway.
0.1.0rc1 (no bring-your-own httpx)	Optional: pass http_client=httpx.Client(...), limits=httpx.Limits(...), or transport='aiohttp' (with pip install astroway[aiohttp]).

A type-stability test suite (tests/test_types.py) inspects constructor signatures, error subclass tree, dataclass fields, and Literal unions — any future PR that breaks the public surface fails CI before reaching PyPI.

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Links

• 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/astroway/
• 📘 API docs: https://api.astroway.info/docs/api/
• 🔑 Sign up & dashboard: https://api.astroway.info/dashboard/
• 💰 Pricing: https://api.astroway.info/pricing/
• 🟦 TypeScript SDK: @astroway/sdk
• 🤖 MCP server: @astroway/mcp
• 🌐 Website: https://astroway.info

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.