Kafeteria

Kafeteria is a Python package to asynchronously access the menu of the cafeterias at KAIST.

KAIST 학식 메뉴를 asyncio를 사용하여 불러올 수 있는 Python 패키지입니다.

Installation

Install the package using pip:

pip install kafeteria

If you want optional Slack integration, install with the slack extra:

pip install kafeteria[slack]

Usage

Use the get_menu function to get the menu for a specific cafeteria, or the get_menus function to get the menus for multiple cafeterias at once.

Valid cafeteria codes are:

• fclt : 카이마루
• west : 서측식당
• east1 : 동측 학생식당
• east2 : 동측 교직원식당
• emp : 교수회관
• icc : 문지캠퍼스
• hawam : 화암 기숙사식당
• seoul : 서울캠퍼스 구내식당

Here's an example:

import asyncio
import datetime
import kafeteria


async def main():
    # Get the menu for a specific cafeteria
    menu = await kafeteria.get_menu("fclt")
    print(menu)

    # Get the menu for a specific date
    menu = await kafeteria.get_menu("fclt", datetime.date(2025, 1, 3))
    print(menu)

    # Get the menus for multiple cafeterias at once
    menus = await kafeteria.get_menus(["fclt", "east1", "east2"])
    print(menus)


asyncio.run(main())

Slack Integration

You can also publish today's menu to a Slack channel using the kafeteria.slack.publish function.

First, you need to set up a Slack app with the chat:write permission. Once you have a bot set up with the necessary permissions, set the following environment variables:

• KAFETERIA_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN (required): The bot token for the Slack app.

• KAFETERIA_SLACK_CHANNEL (required): The channel ID to post the message to.

  This can be found by right-clicking on the channel in the Slack app and selecting "Copy link". The channel ID is the last part of the URL.

  For more information, see the slack api documentation.

• KAFETERIA_MENU_TIME (optional): The menu to send.

  This can be one of 0, 1, 2, or 3. The behavior is as follows:

  • 1: breakfast

  • 2: lunch

  • 3: dinner

  • 0: default, automatically selects the menu based on the current time:

    • breakfast: 19:30 - 09:00
    • lunch: 09:00 - 14:00
    • dinner: 14:00 - 19:30

• KAFETERIA_LIST (optional): The list of cafeterias to send the menu for.

  This should be a comma-separated list of cafeteria codes. By default, fclt,west,east1,east2 is used.

• KAFETERIA_IGNORE_PROFONLY (optional): Whether to ignore the "professor only" menu.

  This flag is used to filter out the "professor only" (교수전용) menu from the list of menus. If enabled, all lines below a line that contains 교수전용 will be stripped from the menu. This can be set to 0 or 1. By default, it is set to 1 (enabled).

Then, you can publish the menu to a channel using kafeteria.slack.publish():

import asyncio
import kafeteria.slack

asyncio.run(kafeteria.slack.publish())

A shortcut function kafeteria.slack.run_publish() is provided for running in non-async environments.

kafeteria.slack.publish() and kafeteria.slack.run_publish() takes an optional keyword-only parameter, skip_holiday, which, if set to True, skips publishing the menu when the current day is a holiday in Korea.

Automation

Slack integration can be automated to publish the menu at a specific time every weekday using a scheduler. An example using apscheduler is provided in the kafeteria.scheduler module, which can be started by running the following command:

python -m kafeteria.scheduler

If you want to handle the automation in CI/CD, here is an example GitHub Actions workflow. Note that scheduled workflows may be delayed depending on the GitHub Actions server load.

name: Publish Menu

on:
  schedule:
    # Every weekday at 11:30 AM GMT+9 (2:30 AM UTC)
    - cron: "30 2 * * 1-5"

env:
  KAFETERIA_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.KAFETERIA_SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }} # Set in repository secrets
  KAFETERIA_SLACK_CHANNEL: "C0123456789" # Replace with your channel ID
  KAFETERIA_MENU_TIME: "0" # Automatically select the menu based on workflow run time
  KAFETERIA_LIST: "fclt,west,east1,east2"

jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.13"

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: pip install kafeteria[slack]

      - name: Publish menu
        run: python -c 'import kafeteria.slack; kafeteria.slack.run_publish(skip_holiday=True)'