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icssc / peterportal-public-api

API that provides easy-access to UC Irvine data such as: courses, professors, grade distribution, schedule of classes, and more

https://api.peterportal.org/

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Cache Current Week #195

Open ramanxg opened 2 years ago

ramanxg commented 2 years ago

From PR #191

Add a JSON cache for the current week helpers. The helpers can use the JSON for data instead of making requests to uci, (especially old dates). We can run a script to update the cache every year, and keep the script in /utils.

ramanxg commented 2 years ago

Ten year plan for UCI: https://www.reg.uci.edu/calendars/academic/tenyr-19-29.html Maybe we can use this for caching instead.

Edwu29 commented 2 years ago

This is how Peterportal client cached the data, although to MongoDB, might be helpful. https://github.com/icssc/peterportal-client/blob/master/api/src/helpers/week.ts

ramanxg commented 2 years ago

TODO:

[ ] Write a script that scrapes UCI Calendar and creates a JSON in our cache
- Note: UCI reg only offers info from Fall 2008 (Sept 25) - Spring 2023 at the moment.
- Starts here: https://reg.uci.edu/calendars/quarterly/2008-2009/quarterly08-09.html
[ ] In our week.helper, use the json to reference the dates, instead of the scraped data. We shouldn't ever need to scrape.
[ ] Test!