🎓 Kamar.js

Kamar JS is a flexible promise based api wrapper for the popular school management suite KAMAR

This is a passion project of a High School Student, so updates and bug fixes may not be the fastest however I will try my hardest to provide a powerful library for working with KAMAR

👨‍🏭 Installation

You can start using Kamar JS by installing it from npm using

npm i kamar-js

👩‍💻 Getting Started

You can create a new Kamar object by using

const Kamar = require('kamar-js'),
  kamar = new Kamar({portal: 'demo.school.kiwi'});

This object has many options, here is a list of what it will accept

Parameter	Description	Default	Required
Portal	The url of your school's kamar website this is often something like kamar.schoolname.nz or portal.schoolname.nz/kamar There's no need to include https:// and /api/api.php as these are added automatically when Kamar is defined		Yes
Year	The year to use when returning time based Objects like the student's calender	Date().getFullYear()	No. Will use current year if not provided
User Agent	The user agent sent with the request headers	'Kamar-JS v????'	No. Although it is recommended to have your application's name on this
Timezone	The timezone to use when converting timetable times between locations	Pacific/Auckland	No. Helpful for dealing with schools based in Fiji, The Cook Islands, etc
Calender	This is only to be used if you don't want to use kamar.getCalender() or already have one ready. Use at your own risk as your file must be formatted correctly		No. In most cases kamar.getCalender() works
Timeout	The timeout for HTTPS requests in ms. before they are abandoned	10000	No

Examples

Here are some example and breakdowns explaining how to use kamar js

Getting a Students Timetable

Example

const Kamar = require('kamar-js'),
  kamar = new Kamar({portal: 'demo.school.kiwi'});

// Authenticates the student using the portal set above
kamar.logon('web.student', 'student').then(credentials => {
  kamar
    .getCalendar(credentials)
    .then(calender => kamar.getTimetable(credentials, calender))
    .then(timetable => {
      console.log(timetable);
      // Anything you want to do with the timetable.
    });
});

Breakdown of the Code

Creating a Kamar object

const Kamar = require('kamar-js'),
  kamar = new Kamar({portal: 'demo.school.kiwi'});

This is where we construct the new Kamar object, the only required parameter is portal

Logging in

kamar.logon("web.student", "student").then(credentials => {

A example of the credentials object

{
  username: 'web.student',
  studentID: 17046,
  key: 'bocpq9iXOjr9DDOOBOto9DVcppOtY9B6',
  accessLevel: 0
}

From that Kamar object we start to authenticate a Student using their portal username and password. This will return a credentials object which looks like this

Getting the calender

kamar.getCalendar(credentials);

A example of the calender day object

{
  Date: '2021-06-14',
  Status: '',
  DayTT: 1,
  Term: 2,
  TermA: 2,
  Week: 7,
  WeekA: 7,
  WeekYear: 18,
  TermYear: 7
}

After the authentication is ready we call kamar.getCalender(), this is the first and only time that we will need to call this as when it is called it is assigned globally to the Kamar object. But for simplicity only DayTT, Date and Week are passed to the Timetable

Getting the Student's Timetable for this week

.then(calender => kamar.getTimetable(credentials, calender))
.then(timetable => {
    console.log(timetable)
    // Anything you want to do with the timetable.
})

A example of the Timetable object

[
  {Class: 'L2DIT', Room: 'B13', Teacher: 'SCH', Time: '08:45'},
  {Class: 'L2BUS', Room: 'R1', Teacher: 'MOC', Time: '09:50'},
  {
    Class: undefined,
    Room: undefined,
    Teacher: undefined,
    Time: '10:50',
  },
  {Class: 'L2DVC', Room: 'T2', Teacher: 'STE', Time: '11:15'},
  {Class: 'L2MA1', Room: 'B1', Teacher: 'NEV', Time: '12:15'},
  {
    Class: undefined,
    Room: undefined,
    Teacher: undefined,
    Time: '13:15',
  },
  {Class: 'Whanau', Room: 'B8', Teacher: 'SEA/JEN', Time: '14:00'},
  {Class: 'L2EN1', Room: 'E5', Teacher: 'CHI', Time: '14:20'},
];

Finally we call kamar.GetTimetable() This takes the calender and credentials objects from before and turns them into a array of Periods with Class, Room, Teacher and Time. If undefined this is because of unmarked events, assemblies or lunch breaks.