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Building a Python app with Claude to query the USASpending.gov API | PeakD

With Claude´s assistance, I built a Python tool to query USASpending.gov for Cuba-related contracts and grants. The API had some quirks —500 errors,...

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Published: 3 Oct 2026 (16d ago)
Medium: web
Language: English (the page says so itself)
Subject: Developer tools (read from the page)
First seen: 4 Oct 2026, 00:14 UTC

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91 hygiene score

Certificate issued by WE1, 32 days remaining
Cookie attributes 1 cookies, 0 without the secure flag
Credentials and payment does not ask for either
Strict transport security set
Served over HTTPS
Mail authentication sender policy and authentication published
No insecure resources
Redirects none
Security headers 5 of 5 set, policy permits inline or evaluated script
Third-party origins 5
Transport security TLS 1.3

Observed 4 Oct 2026 by fetching the page as a browser would. This describes hygiene and transparency, not safety: a missing header does not make a site dangerous, and a complete set does not make it trustworthy.

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