Salaah FAQs

Question 1

What calculation methods are supported?

Accepted Answer

Salaah supports multiple prayer time calculation methods including ISNA, MWL, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian General Authority of Survey, Karachi, Tehran, and Jafari.

Question 2

What is Salaah?

Accepted Answer

Salaah is a FastAPI-based API that calculates Islamic prayer times and Qiblah direction. It uses the `islamic_times` library for accurate calculations and provides various endpoints for prayer times, Qiblah, sun, and moon information.

Question 3

Can I get sun and moon position data?

Accepted Answer

Yes! Salaah provides endpoints to retrieve detailed sun and moon position data, including sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, altitude, azimuth, and more.

Question 4

How do I install and run Salaah?

Accepted Answer

You can install Salaah by cloning the repository, installing dependencies using `uv` and then running `uv run run.py`. The API will then be accessible at http://localhost:8000 by default.

Question 5

What kind of requests can I make to the API?

Accepted Answer

You can POST requests to various endpoints such as `/prayer_times` to get prayer times for specific coordinates, `/qiblah` to get qiblah direction, `/sun` and `/moon` to obtain solar and lunar information, and `/moon/visibility` to calculate new moon visibility.

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