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API Wrapper

Prerequisite

  • Knowledge of calling API’s for obtaining data
  • Ability to manipulate JSON

Challenge

The business development department at GovTech wants to easily query spending trends for specific agencies. Your task is to write a program that can provide the three biggest awards in a year for a list of agencies.

Requirements

  • Write a CLI executable which accepts arguments for the Recipient Award Spending API at USASpending.gov.
  • The application must allow for multiple agencies and years to be provided.
  • The executable will return no more than the 3 biggest awards for each year in a tabular format.

Examples

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Deliverable

  • A great README with instructions on how to run everything locally
  • A GitHub repo with read permissions given to GitHub users rafty8s,bsneider, omnipresent07, barakstout, smmorgan (how to invite collaborators)