mealviewerapi

No longer maintained

A lightweight wrapper for the MealViewer API

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Finding your school

Find your school by going to MealViewer and search for your school.

The url will look like https://schools.mealviewer.com/school/{YourSchool}. take {YourSchool}, and put it in the Client constructor.

Changelog

v2.0

• Refactored return object again

+ {menu: [{lunch?: {}, etc...}], url?, date?, rawData?}
- {items: [{lunch?: {}, etc...}], url?, date?, rawData?}

• Changed urls

+ response.url    => https://schools.mealviewer.com/school/{YourSchool}
- response.url    => https://api.mealviewer.com/api/v4/school/{YourSchool}

+ response.apiURL => https://api.mealviewer.com/api/v4/school/{YourSchool}

• Now using class

+ new mv.Client(school, options?).get(date?)
- mv.get(school, date?, options?)

• Daily checking event

+ client.daily.on('newMenu', data => {})

• New return array/string to make it clearer what will be returned

+ new Client('mySchool', {return: ['date', 'url']})
- new Client('mySchool', {date?, url?})

• More return options

+ apiUrl, rawData

• Added menu types for intellisense
• node-fetch dependancy is now set to v2 instead of ^v2
  • mealviewerapi is a CJS project, while node-fetch v3 is an ESM file making v3 unusable with CJS files
• Code Examples

v1.5

• get function now accepts start and end date

+ mv.get(school, {start?, end?})

• refactored return object

+ {items: [{lunch?: {}}, etc...], url?, date?, rawData?}
- {lunch?: {}, url?, date?, rawData?}