Public Holidays: Merge duplicate date/events

[MrChrisW]

Events on the public holidays IA are repeated several times when the only change in data is the region.

This is due to the API returning the same event with a new id and new "states" - api response. Maybe we can merge these events into a single item on the table?

Examples:

https://beta.duckduckgo.com/?q=public+holidays+in+united+states&ia=answer&iax=1

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=public+holidays+in+australia

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IA Page: http://duck.co/ia/view/public_holidays Maintainer: @sekhavati

[moollaza]

@MrChrisW good catch! -- For some reason I don't see Cesar Chavez day at all for the first link. However with the recent updates to this IA (adding local holidays) I see duplication in the results:

https://beta.duckduckgo.com/?q=public+holidays+in+united+states&ia=answer&iax=1

[MrChrisW]

@moollaza

For some reason I don't see Cesar Chavez day at all for the first link.

Yup, I was testing it out on BETA! :wink:

[sekhavati]

@MrChrisW Thanks for pointing this out. Please assign this issue to me and I'll fix it. Looks like the API is returning multiple objects for the same holiday with a differing set of states. Each have the same id though so I think it should be fairly straight forward to fix this.

[MrChrisW]

@sekhavati Thanks for the quick fix. It's great to see the holidays IA continually improving! :+1: