Countries Data Scraper 🌍

This actor scrapes detailed information about countries, providing comprehensive data about nations worldwide. Perfect for developers, researchers, and businesses needing accurate country information.

Features ✨

• 🔍 Search functionality to filter specific countries
• 🏳️ Multiple flag formats (vector, flat, embossed)
• 📊 Detailed country information including:
  • Official and native names
  • Country codes (Alpha-2, Alpha-3, Numeric)
  • Capital cities
  • Administrative subdivisions
  • Geographical data (regions, coordinates)
  • Economic indicators (GDP, population)
  • Currency information
  • Time zones
  • Border countries
  • Languages
  • Internet TLDs
  • Calling codes

Usage 💡

Simply provide a search query (optional) to filter specific countries, or leave it empty to fetch data for all countries.

Use Cases 🎯

• Building country databases
• Geographic information systems
• International business applications
• Educational resources
• Travel applications
• Data analysis and research

Input Parameters 🎛️

Parameter	Type	Description
searchQuery	String	Optional search term to filter countries (e.g., "america")

Support 🤝

If you have any questions or need help, please reach out through Apify's support channels.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

{
    "searchQuery": "america"
}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

[
	{
		"countryName": "American Samoa",
		"nativeName": "American Samoa",
		"flag": {
			"vector": "https://cnx-images.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/countries/svg/asm.svg",
			"flat": "https://cnx-images.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/countries/flat/as.svg",
			"embossed": "https://cnx-images.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/countries/png/as.png"
		},
		"alpha2Code": "AS",
		"alpha3Code": "ASM",
		"numericCode": "016",
		"capital": "Pago Pago",
		"subdivisions": "AS, Amerika Sāmoa, Amelika Sāmoa, Sāmoa Amelika",
		"region": "Oceania",
		"subRegion": "<small>Polynesia</small>",
		"coordinates": {
			"lat": -14.333,
			"lon": -170
		},
		"currency": {
			"symbol": "$",
			"code": "USD",
			"name": "United State Dollar"
		},
		"area": {
			"value": 199
		},
		"population": {
			"value": 57100
		},
		"gdp": {
			"value": null
		},
		"timezone": {
			"value": "UTC-11:00"
		},
		"borders": {
			"list": []
		},
		"callingCode": {
			"value": "1684"
		},
		"internetTLD": "",
		"language": {
			"list": [
				"ASA"
			]
		}
	},
    ...
]