🌍 REST Countries Info Scraper

🚀 Export the global country reference dataset in seconds. Pull 250+ countries with population, capital, currencies, languages, borders, flags, and demonyms. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The REST Countries Info Scraper exports the community-maintained country reference catalog and returns 29 fields per record, including ISO 3166 codes, official and common names, population, capital cities, currencies, spoken languages, neighboring borders, demonyms, flags, calling codes, and continent assignments. The underlying source is one of the most widely cited open country datasets on the web.

The catalog covers every UN-recognized state, observer entities, and dependent territories, across all continents and 184 spoken languages. This Actor turns that reference into a downloadable dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. Six query modes let you pull the whole world, search by name, or filter by region, language, currency, or independence status.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Trip-planning platforms, edtech publishers, fintech onboarding, BI dashboards, news desks, NGOs, GIS engineers	Country pickers, geo dropdowns, currency-aware checkouts, language fallback logic, demographic dashboards, classroom worksheets

📋 What the REST Countries Scraper does

Six query workflows in a single run:

• 🌐 Worldwide export. Every country, territory, and dependency in one pull.
• 🔎 Search by name. Pass a full or partial country name and get matching records.
• 🗺️ Filter by region. Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, or Antarctic.
• 🗣️ Filter by language. Restrict to countries that speak Spanish, French, Arabic, and 180+ more.
• 💱 Filter by currency. Filter by any ISO 4217 currency code, like USD, EUR, or JPY.
• 🕊️ Independent countries only. Skip observer entities and dependent territories.

Each record bundles identifiers (ISO 2, ISO 3, numeric), geography (capital, region, subregion, continents, lat/lng), demographics (population, area), culture (languages, demonyms, translations), economics (currencies, calling codes), and reference links to Google Maps and OpenStreetMap.

💡 Why it matters: every product with a country dropdown, a currency formatter, or a language selector needs this data, and most teams hand-roll it from CSVs that go stale within a year. This Actor keeps your country reference fresh on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: area, borders, callingCodes, capital, cca2, cca3, ccn3, commonName, continents, currencies, demonyms, drivingSide, flagUrl, independent, languages, latlng, mapsGoogle, mapsOpenStreetMaps, officialName, population, region, scrapedAt, startOfWeek, subregion, timezones, tld, translations, unMember. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the REST Countries Info Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a query mode, fill in the matching field, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your dataset.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by REST Countries or any of its contributors. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open country reference data is collected.

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