Muezzin API

Welcome to Muezzin API web service!

This application provides Islamic prayer times for more than 200 countries, their cities and many of their districts. Data is read from Republic of Turkey, Presidency of Religious Affairs' website and provided in a simple JSON structure.

The application will be running at https://muezzin-staging.herokuapp.com.

Technical Details

Muezzin API application is developed using Play Framework and Scala. The application utilizes Akka Actors actors for scheduling jobs, WS for making HTTP requests, Firebase Realtime Database for data persistance and Errors for error handling.

Deploying Muezzin API to AWS ElasticBeanstalk

Add host of your EB host to application.conf under play.filters.hosts.allowed. Here's an example:

play {
  filters.hosts {
    allowed = [
      "muezzin.123456.eu-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com",
      "muezzin.herokuapp.com",
      "muezzin-staging.herokuapp.com",
      "localhost:9000"
    ]
  }
}

Then run sbt elastic-beanstalk:dist to create ZIP file that you can upload to your ElasticBeanstalk.

Thanks @gokhanayhan38 for his help.

API Reference

General

• All endpoints use GET method.
• When a request is successful, response will be 200 OK with application/json as Content-Type and the requested data in body.
• When a request fails, response will be 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE with application/json as Content-Type and error data in body according to Errors.

Example Response With Errors

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "name": "requestFailed",
      "reason": "Diyanet returned invalid content type.",
      "data": "applocation/xml"
    }
  ]
}

• Each object in errors array will correspond to a single error. There may be 1 or more error objects.
• name will be provided for all types of errors whereas reason and data might not be available for all errors.

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Countries

GET: /countries

It returns available countries.

Example Response

{
  "countries": {
    "2": {
      "name": "Turkey",
      "nameTurkish": "Türkiye",
      "nameNative": "Türkiye"
    }
  }
}

• Every key in countries object is the id for the country in the value object.
• name is the name of country in English.
• nameTurkish is the name of the country in Turkish.
• nameNative is the name of the country in their native language.

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Cities

GET: /countries/<countryId>/cities

It returns available cities of given countryId.

Example Response

{
  "cities": {
    "540": {
      "name": "İzmir"
    }
  }
}

• Every key in cities object is the id for the city in the value object.
• name is the name of the city.

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Districts

GET: /countries/<countryId>/cities/<cityId>/districts

It returns available districts of given cityId of countryId. Please note that some cities might not have districts available.

Example Response

{
  "districts": {
    "9552": {
      "name": "Aliağa"
    }
  }
}

• Every key in districts object is the id for the district in the value object.
• name is the name of the district.

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Prayer Times

GET: /prayerTimes/country/<countryId>/city/<cityId>/district/<districtId>

It returns prayer times for a month belonging to given countryId, cityId and districtId. Please note that there are no times available for past dates and more than 1 month future dates. Diyanet only provides 1 month of prayer times starting from current time. Therefore, it is client's responsibility to keep requested prayer times and request more whenever needed.

Example Response

{
  "prayerTimes": {
    "2016-08-23": {
      "fajr": "04:56",
      "shuruq": "06:26",
      "dhuhr": "13:21",
      "asr": "17:02",
      "maghrib": "20:03",
      "isha": "21:26",
      "qibla": "12:00"
    }
  }
}

• Every key in prayerTimes object is the date for the prayer times in the value object. Dates are formatted as: yyyy-MM-dd
• fajr, shuruq, dhuhr, asr, maghrib, isha and qibla are times formatted as HH:mm, representing the named times respectively.
• qibla is set to 00:00 when it is not available.

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License

Muezzin API is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Mehmet Akif Tütüncü

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