Man, let me tell you about this morning hassle. Woke up thinking “Is this a good week to ask for that raise?” as a Virgo, you know we gotta plan everything. Used to mean opening Chrome on my stupid phone, thumbing in that Ganeshaspeaks URL every single Monday morning while waiting for my coffee to brew. Felt like such a waste of time.
Getting Fed Up With Manual Checks
Seriously, got real damn tired of doing that dance week after week. Sometimes I’d totally forget until Wednesday – defeats the whole purpose of a weekly horoscope, right? Figured there had to be a quicker way. My dumb brain first went: “Just write a scraper, how hard could it be?” Famous last words.
Dusted off some old Python scripts. Used the requests and BeautifulSoup stuff I had lying around. Wrote a quick dirty script trying to pull the Virgo section straight off the Ganeshaspeaks page. Hit ‘Run’ feeling pretty smug. Boom. Got slapped with nothing but errors. Site’s got defenses, didn’t wanna talk to my scraper. Walls up. Totally blocked. Felt like a moron.
The “Oh Duh” Moment & Actually Making It Work
Sipped my cold coffee, pissed off. Then it clicked. Searched properly – found out they actually have an API for their horoscopes. Facepalm moment. Obvious solution was right there. Needed something legit.
So, rolled up my sleeves:
- Scoured the site properly this time, found their horoscope API info buried.
- Saw I needed an API key. Signed up for their developer thing, got my own key sent to my email.
- Firedup my text editor. Started writing a new Python script. This time, playing nice.
- Used
requestsagain, but properly. Crafted the URL like the docs said: specific endpoint for “virgo”, “weekly”. - Stuck my shiny new API key in the headers so they knew I wasn’t some bot.
- Ran the script, holding my breath… Bingo! Clean JSON data popped out in the terminal. Full Virgo weekly prediction text, dates, everything. Praise the stars.
But getting raw JSON? Nah, not helpful for my Monday bleary eyes. Tweaked the script. Made it pull out just the core prediction text and formatted it nice and clean. Ran it – perfect. Read the whole thing before my second sip of coffee. Victory!
Setting It & Forgetting It
Manual run is progress, but lazy mode is the goal. Wanted it automatic every Monday AM. Set up a cron job on my little home server. Told it:
- Run this script every Monday at 7:00 AM.
- Don’t just print it – email the formatted horoscope straight to me.
Tested it yesterday. Woke up today, boom. Email sitting in my inbox titled “Your Virgo Week Forecast”. Opened it while still half asleep. Read the insights before my feet even hit the floor. Zero effort, exactly how a Monday should start. Finally got my fast Ganeshaspeaks fix locked down. Now maybe I can figure out if asking for that raise this week is truly a good idea!
