API Fetch and Search in a Project | Dataford Interview Questions

Describe a time you worked on a project where you retrieved data from an API, displayed it on a screen, and added search functionality.

Implement search_api_results(pages, query, limit) for a paginated API response. Deduplicate items by first-seen id, match the query as a contiguous sequence of words in either title or description, rank title matches before description matches, preserve API order for ties, and return at most limit IDs. Matching is case-insensitive, and an empty query returns the first items in API order.

Contract

pages is a list of pages containing dictionaries with integer id and string title and description; return a list of integer IDs.

Constraints

0 <= number of pages <= 100
0 <= total number of API items <= 1,000
Each item contains an integer id and string title and description
0 <= limit <= 1,000
Query matching is case-insensitive and uses contiguous word sequences

Function Signature

def search_api_results(pages, query, limit):

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