This project provides real-time statistics about the busyness of University of Michigan dining halls. It utilizes data obtained by reverse-engineering the internal capacity API used by the official mobile app.
https://beasleydog.github.io/diningstats
- Display current capacity for all U-M dining halls
- Show historical data and trends
- Predict best times to visit each dining hall
- Filter and compare different dining locations
- Input schedule and preferred eating times to get more useful recommendations
The backend is a Google Apps Script that populates a Google Sheet (this project started as an exploration with Google Sheet's built-in graphs but then grew) with dining hall capacity data from the U-M mobile app internal dining hall API every 15 minutes.
I used Charles to intercept requests from my phone, allowing me to capture the API route for dining hall capacity info. With a little bit of inspection I was able to to replicate the (limited) auth when sending requests from my backend.
- Clone the repository
- Install dependencies with
npm install - Start the development server with
npm start - Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser