🌍 RestCountries Scraper - Country Data, Flags, Currencies & More

🚀 Export the complete world country database in seconds. Get flags, capitals, populations, languages, currencies, timezones, and calling codes for all 250 countries with zero auth required.

The RestCountries Scraper pulls from the RestCountries v3.1 public API and returns 17 fields per record, including the country flag image URL, official name, capital, geographic region, population, area, languages, currencies, timezones, international calling codes, and top-level domains. The underlying data is maintained by the open-source community and covers every sovereign state and territory recognized by the United Nations.

The catalog covers all 6 geographic regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctic), 250 countries, and includes both the common name and the full official name of each country. This Actor returns a clean, structured dataset ready for download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds - no scraping engineering required.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Developers, data scientists, GIS analysts, educators, product teams, market researchers, e-commerce teams	Country dropdowns, phone validation, currency conversion, language detection, regional analysis, form autofill, academic research

📋 What the RestCountries Scraper does

Four query workflows in a single run:

• 🌍 Full export. All 250 countries in one shot - flags, capitals, populations, and more.
• 🗺️ Region filter. Scope to Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, or Antarctic.
• 🔍 Name search. Find countries matching a full or partial name (e.g. "united" returns USA, UK, UAE, and more).
• 📦 Controlled batch size. Use maxItems to limit output for testing or tiered data products.

Each record includes the flag image URL, common and official name, capital city, region and subregion, population, area in km², official languages, currencies, timezones, international calling codes, top-level domain extensions, and a landlocked indicator.

💡 Why it matters: country reference data underlies every global product - from phone number validators to e-commerce checkout forms to analytics dashboards. Rolling your own means hardcoding 250 rows and maintaining it manually. This Actor delivers a live, structured export in one click.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: area, callingCodes, capital, currencies, imageUrl, landlocked, languages, name, officialName, population, region, scrapedAt, subregion, timezones, tld, url. All 16 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: when both region and search are provided, the search parameter takes priority. The RestCountries API performs partial name matching, so "ger" will return Germany, Algeria, and Niger. Set maxItems to a higher value if you expect multiple matches.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify (no credit card required).
2. Open the RestCountries Scraper actor page and click Try for free.
3. Set region (or search) and maxItems in the input form.
4. Click Start and wait a few seconds.
5. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Results tab.

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This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by RestCountries or flagcdn.com. It uses only publicly available, unauthenticated API endpoints. Use responsibly and in accordance with the RestCountries terms of service.

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