Ulm University Mensaplan

Note

This repository is no longer maintained. See Tanikai/uniulm_mensa_frontend for a new PWA version with nutrition information and diet filtering.

About

This project contains a web UI for the daily canteen plans at Ulm University. The following canteens are supported:

• Mensa Uni Süd
• Cafeteria Nord
• Burgerbar
• Cafeteria West
• Westside Diner

This project was forked from github.com/seder/mensaplan-web-interface and contains some improvements. See section Changes for more details.

Try it out

• mensaplan.anter.dev for today's plan.
• mensaplan.anter.dev/#Mensa&today&refresh for automatic page refresh, e.g. for kiosk usage.

URL structure

The plan can be configured by setting the anchor or by using the UI elements, which in turn change the anchor.

The anchor is structured as follows: base_url/#<query_str> where <query_str> is a query string. There are three (order independent) parameters:

• canteen (String)
• date (String, formatted in YYYY-MM-DD)
• reload (Boolean)

Please note the # in front of the query string. This allows navigating / refreshing the website without sending a request to the server every time.

Canteen

The canteen parameter has the data type String. The following canteens are supported / allowed:

• Mensa (Mensa Uni Süd)
• Bistro (Cafeteria Nord)
• Burgerbar (Burgerbar at Cafeteria Southside)
• West (Cafeteria West)
• Diner (Westside Diner)

If no argument is given, Mensa Süd will be used as default.

Date

The date parameter has the data type String. The date has to be in the format YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) or one of the following keywords:

• tomorrow
• morgen
• yesterday
• today
• heute
• gestern
• next

Note:

• If no argument is given, today/heute will be used as default.
• next means, that the plan of the mensa will be shown of the next time the facility is open. So during or before opening hours, today's plan and after the facility closes tomorrow's plan (or the plan for the next day the facility opens).
• In any case: if the canteen is closed at that day, the data from the next time it is open will be shown, given that the data is present.

Refresh

If the parameter refresh is set to true, the plan will be refreshed every ten minutes. This can be used for static displays / kiosks, e.g. in the institute coffee kitchen or the student union office.

Examples

base_url

Does the same as

base_url/#?canteen=Mensa&date=today

base_url/#?canteen=Mensa&date=heute

and the same as

base_url/#?canteen=Mensa&date=next

during and before opening hours and

base_url/#?canteen=Mensa&date=YYYY-MM-DD

where YYYY-MM-DD is today's date.

Changes

• Reduced API call count from every day change to once at beginning
• Changed data source to uulm.anter.dev/api/v1/mensaplan.json with better PDF parser
• Improved UI based on some Material 3 principles
• General refactoring of JavaScript code
• Changed URL Query string parsing to be order independent

Alternatives

• Mensa TUI: If you are a terminal lover, you can also use the terminal application a friend of mine wrote

Contact

Kai Anter - www.anter.dev - Mastodon