[Feature Request] JSON/GraphQL api?

[zphrs]

I love the site and I use it daily! It is already miles above the official ucsc.edu menu. Thank you so much for making such a useful alternative.

I would absolutely love if there was a JSON api so that I could query ucsc.cc so that I could develop on top of your parsing without doing a cors pass through or hosting a duplicate instance. Obviously it would make sense to introduce rate limiting etc. to prevent spamming of your server.

I was thinking maybe a GraphQL API which has a structure like:

{
  days: {
    date: Timestamp,
    colleges: {
      college: string, 
      meals: {
        meal: string,
        menu: {
          name: string,  
          allergens: string[]
        }[]
      }[]
    }[]
  }[]
}

Although really any api would be much appreciated.

I’m happy to code up/document the above GraphQL API and open a pull request if you’d like!

Thanks again for making it such a breeze to check the dining hall menus.

[litten8]

You can submit a pull request if you want, and my dad(who makes this, not me) made an update so you can get raw json from https://ucsc.cc/api

[zphrs]

I think I'll still try to implement a GraphQL api in the next week-ish just to get some experience with it although I do really appreciate the raw JSON output from the /api endpoint.

Side note: Currently the api endpoint doesn't have a CORS header which means someone developing another web app around the api endpoint would have to use a CORS proxy. To enable CORS on the api endpoint the package flask-CORS should work like a charm! I've opened a pull request which adds the CORS header to the api endpoint.