DataAnnotations Challenge Solution

solution.py

# Working solution. Hope it helps someone
# $t@$h
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def decode_secret_message(doc_url):
  # Get doc content
  response = requests.get(doc_url)
  html = response.text
  soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
  text = soup.get_text(separator="\n")  # Extract visible text only
  lines = [line.strip() for line in text.splitlines() if line.strip().isdigit() or len(line.strip()) == 1]

  # Convert to a list: (char, x, y)
  data = []
  i = 0
  while i + 2 < len(lines):
    try:
      x = int(lines[i])
      char = lines[i + 1]
      y = int(lines[i + 2])
      data.append((char, x, y))
    except ValueError:
      pass  # Skip malformed entries
    i += 3

  if not data:
    print("No matches found. Check document format.")
    return

  max_x = max(x for _, x, _ in data) # Get x dimensions
  max_y = max(y for _, _, y in data) # Get y dimensions

  # Fill grid of above dimensions with characters
  grid = [[" " for _ in range(max_x + 1)] for _ in range(max_y + 1)]
  for char, x, y in data:
    grid[y][x] = char

  print_grid(grid) # Print

def print_grid(grid):
  for row in grid:
    print("".join(row))

decode_secret_message("https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQGUck9HIFCyezsrBSnmENk5ieJuYwpt7YHYEzeNJkIb9OSDdx-ov2nRNReKQyey-cwJOoEKUhLmN9z/pub")