hoodini/shabbat-times
Access Jewish calendar data and Shabbat times via Hebcal API. Use when building apps with Shabbat times, Jewish holidays, Hebrew dates, or Zmanim. Triggers on Shabbat times, Hebcal, Jewish calendar, Hebrew date, Zmanim.
This is a copy. The original lives at christophacham/shabbat-times.
npx skills add https://github.com/hoodini/ai-agents-skills --skill shabbat-times
Access Shabbat times and Jewish calendar data via the Hebcal API.
// Get Shabbat times for a location
const response = await fetch(
'https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&geonameid=5128581&M=on'
);
const data = await response.json();
const url = new URL('https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat');
url.searchParams.set('cfg', 'json');
url.searchParams.set('geonameid', '5128581'); // New York
url.searchParams.set('M', 'on'); // Include Havdalah
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
// Response
{
"title": "Hebcal New York January 2025",
"items": [
{
"title": "Candle lighting: 4:28pm",
"date": "2025-01-10T16:28:00-05:00",
"category": "candles"
},
{
"title": "Parashat Shemot",
"date": "2025-01-11",
"category": "parashat"
},
{
"title": "Havdalah: 5:31pm",
"date": "2025-01-11T17:31:00-05:00",
"category": "havdalah"
}
]
}
const url = new URL('https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat');
url.searchParams.set('cfg', 'json');
url.searchParams.set('latitude', '32.0853');
url.searchParams.set('longitude', '34.7818');
url.searchParams.set('tzid', 'Asia/Jerusalem');
const url = new URL('https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal');
url.searchParams.set('cfg', 'json');
url.searchParams.set('v', '1');
url.searchParams.set('year', '2025');
url.searchParams.set('month', 'x'); // All months
// Optional parameters
url.searchParams.set('maj', 'on'); // Major holidays
url.searchParams.set('min', 'on'); // Minor holidays
url.searchParams.set('mod', 'on'); // Modern holidays
url.searchParams.set('nx', 'on'); // Rosh Chodesh
url.searchParams.set('ss', 'on'); // Special Shabbatot
url.searchParams.set('s', 'on'); // Weekly parsha
const response = await fetch(url);
const holidays = await response.json();
// Gregorian to Hebrew
const url = new URL('https://www.hebcal.com/converter');
url.searchParams.set('cfg', 'json');
url.searchParams.set('gy', '2025');
url.searchParams.set('gm', '1');
url.searchParams.set('gd', '15');
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
// { "hy": 5785, "hm": "Tevet", "hd": 15, "hebrew": "ט״ו בטבת תשפ״ה" }
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
interface ShabbatTimes {
candleLighting: Date | null;
havdalah: Date | null;
parsha: string | null;
}
function useShabbatTimes(geonameid: string) {
const [times, setTimes] = useState<ShabbatTimes | null>(null);
const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
useEffect(() => {
async function fetchTimes() {
const url = new URL('https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat');
url.searchParams.set('cfg', 'json');
url.searchParams.set('geonameid', geonameid);
url.searchParams.set('M', 'on');
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
const result: ShabbatTimes = {
candleLighting: null,
havdalah: null,
parsha: null
};
for (const item of data.items) {
if (item.category === 'candles') {
result.candleLighting = new Date(item.date);
} else if (item.category === 'havdalah') {
result.havdalah = new Date(item.date);
} else if (item.category === 'parashat') {
result.parsha = item.title.replace('Parashat ', '');
}
}
setTimes(result);
setLoading(false);
}
fetchTimes();
}, [geonameid]);
return { times, loading };
}
| City | GeoNames ID |
|------|-------------|
| Jerusalem | 281184 |
| Tel Aviv | 293397 |
| New York | 5128581 |
| Los Angeles | 5368361 |
| London | 2643743 |
| Paris | 2988507 |
Take hoodini/shabbat-times from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.