stevenkowalzik/mensa-bremen-api

This API scrapes the Mensa Bremen website and provides a json version of the foodplan. Used by mensabremen.de

mensa-bremen-api's Issues

Implement Food Notes

The Studentenwerk website https://www.stw-bremen.de/de/essen-trinken/uni-mensa shows Symbols according to certain ingredients like Pork, Fish or a Vegan Mention. These could be implemented into the API aswell, providing more information about the different meals.

Tests

No tests yet, for automated updates etc. we should implement basic tests that garantuee the apis functions. Most importantly we should test for the DOM Structure of the scraped website. This should also ensure that the frontend continues to work: https://github.com/LegacyMode/Bremen-Mensa-Frontend

Dividing different options

Aufläufe & Gratin, Beilage, Suppen and Salate have multiple options. They have to be seperate in the response.

Loading Times [Performance]

At the moment the html is accessed from the cache, then scraped. This leads to long loading times, even though a cache is used. Instead the data itself should be cached and html should only be requested and scraped if the cache exceeds the TTL.

Implement Drink Prices

There are different drinks provided in the Mensa, these could be statically served aswell from e.g. a json file that is read.
Access to the Mensa Bremen is needed to see these prices.

Seems the site right now has some invalid TLS certificate for the API route

right now provides a

404 Not Found
nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)

Double Spaces

There are still mutiple spaces instead of a single space in the dish name. There is a regex that should filter out double spaces, but it does not seem to work for all cases.

Unhandled Rejection Error

On accessing the API the program throws 2 unhandled promise rejection errors. These should be handled.

Workers/Outside Prices

For now the API only serves costs for students. The Studentenwerk Website https://www.stw-bremen.de/de/essen-trinken/uni-mensa shows prices for price group B as well. This could be served per meal as well in requests.

Empty food categories

After a quick look at the current stable v2 API, I found empty food category-objects.

{
    "type": "",
    "meal": [
        
    ]
},
{
    "type": "",
    "meal": [
        
    ]
},
{
    "type": "",
    "meal": [
        
    ]
}

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