Add ability to identify student's course level

[marvinIsSacul]

Having this will help in creating optimized timetables for all course levels

[zalimitless]

There are 2 ways to do this:
The first method is to just scrape the information from the php call: https://mylms.vossie.net/mytimetable/index.php
The other method, if you just want the courses, is you can do an API call to get the courses:
"https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=" + sesskey + "&info=theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses"
You can scrape the sesskey from the website using something like:

var input = document.querySelector('#usernavigation form input[name="sesskey"]');
if (input) {
    resolve(input.value);
}

[zalimitless]

I spoke with IT regarding the course times and how it is managed.
They said that they are using a software called Untis that manages the timesheets.
It would be nice if we can figure out a way to directly integrate with that system if possible.

https://help.untis.at/hc/de/articles/4886785534354-API-documentation-for-integration-partners

[marvinIsSacul]

I see.

I've assigned you to the task then.

There are 2 ways to do this: The first method is to just scrape the information from the php call: https://mylms.vossie.net/mytimetable/index.php The other method, if you just want the courses, is you can do an API call to get the courses: "https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=" + sesskey + "&info=theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses" You can scrape the sesskey from the website using something like:

var input = document.querySelector('#usernavigation form input[name="sesskey"]');
if (input) {
    resolve(input.value);
}

[marvinIsSacul]

I spoke with IT regarding the course times and how it is managed. They said that they are using a software called Untis that manages the timesheets. It would be nice if we can figure out a way to directly integrate with that system if possible.

https://help.untis.at/hc/de/articles/4886785534354-API-documentation-for-integration-partners

Nice man. this is great.

I'll also do some research from my side to try and figure it out.

[zalimitless]

Unfortunately this second method does not contain any course times.

There are 2 ways to do this: The first method is to just scrape the information from the php call: https://mylms.vossie.net/mytimetable/index.php The other method, if you just want the courses, is you can do an API call to get the courses: "https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=" + sesskey + "&info=theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses" You can scrape the sesskey from the website using something like:

var input = document.querySelector('#usernavigation form input[name="sesskey"]');
if (input) {
    resolve(input.value);
}

[marvinIsSacul]

Unfortunately this second method does not contain any course times.

There are 2 ways to do this: The first method is to just scrape the information from the php call: https://mylms.vossie.net/mytimetable/index.php The other method, if you just want the courses, is you can do an API call to get the courses: "https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=" + sesskey + "&info=theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses" You can scrape the sesskey from the website using something like:

var input = document.querySelector('#usernavigation form input[name="sesskey"]');
if (input) {
    resolve(input.value);
}

Ahh I see.

Perhaps we might need to use a combination of the 2 then 🤔

[marvinIsSacul]

Unfortunately this second method does not contain any course times.

There are 2 ways to do this: The first method is to just scrape the information from the php call: https://mylms.vossie.net/mytimetable/index.php The other method, if you just want the courses, is you can do an API call to get the courses: "https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=" + sesskey + "&info=theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses" You can scrape the sesskey from the website using something like:

var input = document.querySelector('#usernavigation form input[name="sesskey"]');
if (input) {
    resolve(input.value);
}

This is very useful though. I wasn't aware of this API call before

[zalimitless]

The call also requires a default payload:

            var payload = JSON.stringify([{
                "index": 0,
                "methodname": "theme_remui_get_myoverviewcourses",
                "args": {
                    "offset": 0,
                    "limit": 24,
                    "classification": "all",
                    "sort": "fullname",
                    "customfieldname": "",
                    "customfieldvalue": ""
                }
            }]);

            return fetch(url, {
                    method: 'POST',
                    headers: {
                        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
                    },
                    body: payload
                })
                .then(function(response) {
                    if (!response.ok) {
                        throw new Error("HTTP error " + response.status);
                    }
                    return response.json();
                })
                .then(function(data) {
                       //... work with data
                })
                .catch(function(err) {
                    console.error("Error: ", err);
                });
        }

[zalimitless]

IT also mentioned that the courses are categorized in "Folders" on Moodle:

Might need to explore the Moodle API to see if getting this could be possible.

[zalimitless]

Something that would be nice to have is to scrape the Teams link as well:

The issue with scraping the link at the moment is that when doing a request to this PHP page is that the HTML can change at any given time and is a lot of HTML to scrape through. The page can also change at any given time as the DFL Department is frequently changing this HTML page.

[zalimitless]

Request URL:
https://mylms.vossie.net/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=FDOZGW5Msj&info=core_courseformat_get_state

Request Method:
POST

Request Payload:
[{"index":0,"methodname":"core_courseformat_get_state","args":{"courseid":3505}}]

Sample:

This will return all the general resources available for the specific course that we are trying to access - Course ID 3505 is referring to ITPLA1-22

If we do a search for the keyword "Join" we can then get another PHP page, which could reduce the HTML to scrape.

[marvinIsSacul]

IT also mentioned that the courses are categorized in "Folders" on Moodle:

Might need to explore the Moodle API to see if getting this could be possible.

nice. but what about timetables... isn't there an API call that one can use to get them as well instead of trying to scrape the timetable PHP page ?

[zalimitless]

nice. but what about timetables... isn't there an API call that one can use to get them as well instead of trying to scrape the timetable PHP page ?

I will have a check on that, could also maybe ask IT on how it's done in the backend

[marvinIsSacul]

Yea. that would be nice

[marvinIsSacul]

Might need to explore the Moodle API to see if getting this could be possible

Might be tricky getting access to this since it's on the backend 🤔