API for Open Meal Information

Introduction

This is an unofficial API module for accessing Swedish school lunch menus from skolmaten.se via Open Meal Information as specified at https://orebrokommun.github.io/Open-Meal-Information/.

Prerequisite

Node.js, at least v10.13.0.

Recommended to install latest via nvm:

nvm install stable

Installation in a project

yarn add @hugojosefson/openmeal-api
 # or
npm install --save @hugojosefson/openmeal-api

Programmatic access

It is recommended to import or require the module, and use its exported functions programmatically.

API

Table of Contents

• getDataProviders
  • Parameters
• getDataProviderSkolmaten
  • Parameters
• getDistributors
  • Parameters
• filterDistributors
  • Parameters
• getMeals
  • Parameters
• extractOnlyMeals
  • Parameters

getDataProviders

Returns data providers.

Parameters

• dataprovidersJsonUrl string url for the data providers json. Defaults to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Orebrokommun/Open-Meal-Information/master/dataproviders.json as per https://orebrokommun.github.io/Open-Meal-Information/doc/list-data-providers.html

Returns Promise A Promise of the data property of the response from the server.

getDataProviderSkolmaten

Returns the data provider with name === 'Skolmaten'.

Parameters

• dataprovidersJsonUrl string url for the data providers json. Defaults to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Orebrokommun/Open-Meal-Information/master/dataproviders.json as per https://orebrokommun.github.io/Open-Meal-Information/doc/list-data-providers.html

Returns Promise A Promise of the data property of the response from the server.

getDistributors

Returns distributors from a data provider.

Parameters

• dataprovider object data provider object to fetch distributors from.
  • dataprovider.baseUrl string baseUrl of the data provider.

Returns Promise A Promise of the data property of the response from the server.

filterDistributors

Filters distributors based on partial name and/or partial address.

Parameters

• options object
  • options.distributors Array current distributors to filter, for example from getDistributors or the result of previous call to this function.
  • options.name (string | undefined) if specified, only include distributors in result which contain this string in their name, case insensitively.
  • options.address (string | undefined) if specified, only include distributors in result which contain this string in their addressRegion or addressLocality, case insensitively.

Returns Promise<Array> A Promise of an array of distributors matching the criteria.

getMeals

Fetches meals for a distributor.

Parameters

• options object
  • options.dataprovider object data provider object to fetch distributors from.
    • options.dataprovider.baseUrl string baseUrl of the data provider.
  • options.distributor object distributor whose meals to fetch.
    • options.distributor.distributorID string the distributor's ID.
  • options.startDate (string | undefined) start date on the form YYYY-MM-DD.
  • options.endDate (string | undefined) end date on the form YYYY-MM-DD.

Returns Promise A Promise of the data property of the response from the server.

extractOnlyMeals

Extracts an array of only meals objects from a response from getMeals().

Parameters

• response object response from calling getMeals().

Returns Promise<Array> A Promise of an array containing all meal objects from the supplied response.

Usage on CLI

You can also try it from the command-line.

./node_modules/.bin/openmeal-api

Prints usage information for the CLI.