Community Spring Cleaning week is here! Join your fellow Maveryx in digging through your old posts and marking comments on them as solved. Learn more here!

Weekly Challenges

Solve the challenge, share your solution and summit the ranks of our Community!

Also available in | Français | Português | Español | 日本語
IDEAS WANTED

Want to get involved? We're always looking for ideas and content for Weekly Challenges.

SUBMIT YOUR IDEA

Challenge #139: Spooky API Connection

simbert
8 - Asteroid

Surely there is a way to clean the Bag input with one RegEx tool...

Spoiler
clipboard_image_0.png

 

ecarter-93
8 - Asteroid

Complete!

 

solution 139 image.PNG

Spoiler
 
Bluemoon
8 - Asteroid

Accidentally did it on 2019.3, then downgraded (for server), but I promise it worked...

Spoiler
clipboard_image_0.png
OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Slight spanner in the works...

clipboard_image_1.png

OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

So the API stopped working on the 1st of October, and has been replaced with the FDC API. However, despite following the documentation I could not get this to work. So instead I used Alteryx to download the entire FDC dataset and then worked from there.

Spoiler
challenge 139.png
My answer was slightly different as I had to manually lookup the FDCID, and there were sometimes more than one per candy name. It's still a lot of calories though 🙂
mbogusz
9 - Comet

@SeanAdams I tried opening up your solution to see the use case of fuzzy matching in action, but the attachment is the start file, not the solution file 😞

mbogusz
9 - Comet
Spoiler
2019-11-17 17_13_20-Greenshot.png
edgarl
8 - Asteroid
Spoiler
edgarl_0-1579751914501.png
rmassambane
10 - Fireball
 
danicahui
8 - Asteroid
Spoiler
Challenge 139 2020-01-28.jpg