So this morning I saw folks asking “What’s your Aries horoscope today?” in some forums and thought, why not make a stupid simple page for that? Grabbed my cold coffee and just went for it.
First Step: Find Free Star Data
Opened Google like a caveman, typed “free horoscope API”. WOW so many sketchy sites popped up. Found one that didn’t ask for credit card stuff after clicking around like a confused squirrel for 20 minutes. Copied their funky endpoint URL.
Building The Ugly Box
Fired up VS Code and hammered out this junk:
- Made a dropdown with zodiac signs (yes, Aries is first because RAM energy!)
- Slapped in a big “SHOW MY HOROSCOPE” button that looks like a traffic cone
- Dug through my CSS trash folder to make it not hurt people’s eyes
Connecting The Spaghetti Code
Here’s where things broke TWICE. Copied some JavaScript fetch code from Stack Overflow. First try got blocked by CORS garbage. Almost threw my keyboard. Second try used this free proxy thing:
- Pasted the weird astrology URL into proxy maker site
- Got back an uglier URL but hey, IT WORKED
- * spit out today’s prediction like a fortune cookie
Making It Look Half-Alive
Threw the star data into a purple div with moon emojis 🌙🌙 because why not. Tested on my phone – surprise! The horoscope text exploded out of the box. Went back and added overflow-wrap: break-word like duct tape on plumbing leak.
Testing With Actual Humans
Sent the garbage link to my Leo friend Tom. His exact quote: “My prediction says I’ll find money today but this thing looks like it cost negative dollars.” Perfect feedback, shipped it anyway.
Total time from coffee to chaos? About 90 minutes. You can build janky stuff fast if you ignore every best practice. Now I need another coffee to survive reading my Pisces ex’s angry texts about why her career predictions look upside down.
