Embed the daily Mensa menu to one of the pages

I'm lazy, I don't wanna confirm the date on the official site.

So I'd like a page to do that for me. Maybe even change it like at 3pm so it's the one for the next day already?

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created branch 36-add-the-daily-mensa-menu-to-one-of-the-pages to address this issue

mentioned in merge request !16 (merged)

@landwehr In 10 minutes or so, you will find a link at fsco.li/portal/uni-services to today's menu (and, after 15:00, a link to tomorrow's menu).

Is this acceptable? If so, we can close the issue. If you think it would be neater to have the menu embedded on the page (it probably would), please mention it, so I know this is still at task for the future :)

Works by now.

I do think it would be nicer to have it embedded though. But thanks already.

@landwehr Oh, you were right, I failed to deploy. Now the link should be there.

And I updated the issue to indicate it will only be completed when the menu is embedded

changed title from Add the daily Mensa menu to one of the pages to Embed the daily Mensa menu to one of the pages

Openmensa.org offers the scraped data as JSON, maybe that helps: https://openmensa.org/api/v2/canteens/279/days/2024-06-27/meals

Oh yes, this is nice, probably nicer than scraping the API again ourselves. Sadly, they don't seem to be configured for Cross Origin Resource Sharing (no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in the response)? So we'd need at least a proxy on our API side.

I am pretty sure I have used this directly with just fetch('...openmensa.org/api/...') and it worked cross origin.

Doesn't seem to work at least in my browser, sadly.

🤔 Works Firefox Android:

Hmm, interesting. How did you get the console in Firefox for Android? Is this built-in, or an external functionality?

It's a Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/mobidevtools/

Possibly only works in Firefox nightly build because extensions are restricted in normal Firefox mobile

Nice. Is it possible that the console is not affected by the SOP, because it runs in a WebExtension?

No idea. It injects this library into the page https://github.com/liriliri/eruda

I guess one could still start preparing the client-side component, similar to the one holding the Fachschaftssitzung's agenda:

• Agenda piece
• Fachschaftssitzung page, this does the actual API call

Shouldn't be too complex if you have programming experience (like you, @essig), however, complex enough that I wouldn't be comfortable whipping this out in 5 minutes, and this is why I'm procrastinating it...