Concordia Directory

Search for faculty accross several fields at once, and receive instant results. Try it at conudir.com

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Each query is compared against the name, title, department, email, phone number, and office of each faculty member. The data is a direct copy of the records that can be fetched using Concordia's own people search engine.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing, Concordia's people search suffers from the following issues:

• Frequent outages
• Fields must be searched individually
• Paging isn't automatic

These issues inspired the development of this third-party tool. If you wish to report a bug, or if you have suggestions for further improvements, please create an issue.

API

This project is a React SPA built with Vite that makes API requests to an Express backend.

The API is publicly available at https://conudir.com/api/search. Feel free to incorporate it into your own projects. Here is a some quick documentation on querying for faculty via the Concordia Directory API:

• Search for faculty by some query / keyword by including it as a URL query parameter: https://conudir.com/api/search?query=aiman
• Limit the number of results by adding a limit query parameter: https://conudir.com/api/search?query=hanna&limit=5
• The above API request URL returns results 1 - 5 for the specified query. If instead you would like to retrieve results 6 - 10, you can specify an offset query parameter: https://conudir.com/api/search?query=hanna&limit=5&offset=5

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project by opening a pull request. Don't hesitate to reach out to me for guidance on setting up the development environment, as I have yet to write any documentation for this project.