@hbons shot in the dark question: in all your trolling of the NOAA data, did you ever come across how to get the current sunspot number?
@skatterbean hehe, no I don't have any clue about these. maybe @g7izu knows?

@hbons @skatterbean

The source file is from SIDC Belgium:
https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/DATA/EISN/EISN_current.txt

But checking it is not loading for me just now. The contents should look like this (sunspot column highlighted).