Hello,
I’m working my way through the 30 days of Postman challenge. Tasks for day 05 require access to Coindesk API, yet attempts to send any request return only status 404. According to the service availability monitor on Coindesk’s website the API is fully operational. https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-api also shows a 404 message.
Is this a matter of the API being down for maintenance? Or has the architecture of the Coindesk site changed recently and the old links are no longer working? If so, will the challenge tasks be updated?
Thanks in advance!
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Appreciate you reporting this to us, as it’s a course containing a 3rd party API, those can often change and the routes or structure becomes outdated.
We’ll take a look at this early next week and see what’s going on. If we can update the course using the same API, we’ll make the change.
If not, we’ll look to move to something more within our control. 
Thanks for picking this up!
After completing several more tasks withing the challenge I can point to at least one task (Day 11 - Monitoring) that is blecked because it uses an external service which is currently unavailable (https://water-ttl.herokuapp.com/hygrometer). Is there any chance that the whole challenge could be reviewed and amended in the near future?
We hear you - I will be looking at both of these.
It’s starting to become quite a dated challenge now as the platform has grown over the last few years. Some of the underlying APIs used for the daily tasks have changed too.
Essentially, the Day 05 task is just setting variables at different scopes from the response data and that could be from any public API.
The Monitoring task, is again all about setting up a monitor and less about the actual endpoint it’s hitting. We can swap that out for another API to cover the same learning objectives.
I’m going to be walking through all the daily tasks and updating where it’s needed.
Is Day 11 getting an update too? Thank you!
I’ll be taking a look at that too - I wanted to try and reuse the same API but I don’t think it’s going to work as expected.
I will change this out next week and get that days challenge working again.
As the challenge is around the Monitor feature of Postman, I would recommend using the Docs to understand this more and bypass this Days challenge until it’s updated.