CountryAPI

A Rest Api of country information that you need.

EndPoint Request: http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries

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Contents

How to Use

• What is CountryAPI
• Why use CountryAPI
• Executing the CountryAPI request
• Request Parameters List
• Request Examples (with parameters)
  • Specific country name
  • Countries with a specific region and subRegion
    • Region and sub region list
  • Country with Alpha code 2 or 3
  • Countries with english like native language
  • Countries with Currency code USD (United States Dollar)
  • Countries with an Area (km2) more than 8000 and less than 12000
  • Countries with limit and pagination

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• Servers
• Current Version
• Credits
• References
• Apache License

How To Use

What is CountryAPI?

Country API is a simple web service, made with REST API architecture, that return a simple Json Object with the verb “GET”, withouth Oauth, Oauth2, or another authetication.

This service return the next data of all the countries in the world:

• isSuccess: If isSuccess is true, that means that all works fine, otherwise we had an error.
• userMessage: This message is for the users, and only it is shown when isSuccess is false.
• technicalMessage: This message is technical, and only it is shown when isSuccess is false, please send us a stack trace.
• totalCount: The total countries found in our database.
• response: Array of countries.
  • name
  • alpha2Code
  • alpha3Code
  • nativeName
  • region
  • subRegion
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • area
  • numericCode
  • nativeLanguage
  • currencyCode
  • currencyName
  • currencySymbol
  • flag
  • flagpng

Why use CountryAPI?

• You don’t need to create an account in any web page or application.
• You get a really simple json object.
• You get a basic information of any country.
• You get the flag image of the country.
• You don’t need any type of authentication.
• You don’t have limit of request (Not personally, but yes on server).
• It has the basic and importants features of RestAPI architecture.
• It has many params to request the service (included a pagination and limit).
• It’s completely free and Open source.
• The service is always up (24/7).
• Feel free to use or contribute to improvement it.

Executing the CountryAPI request

Simple example. Only need to open browser and paste the url http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries.

Or use Postman or similar software with the verb GET, and obtain the json data and/or edit the json in Json Editor Online. For example:

Request Parameters

You can use any parameter that you need.

Parameter list:

Request Examples

Specific country name

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pName=Costa%20Rica

{"IsSuccess":true,"UserMessage":null,"TechnicalMessage":null,"TotalCount":1,"Response":[{"Name":"Costa Rica","Alpha2Code":"CR","Alpha3Code":"CRI","NativeName":"Costa Rica","Region":"Americas","SubRegion":"Central America","Latitude":"10","Longitude":"-84","Area":51100,"NumericCode":188,"NativeLanguage":"spa","CurrencyCode":"CRC","CurrencyName":"Costa Rican colón","CurrencySymbol":"₡","Flag":"https://api.backendless.com/2F26DFBF-433C-51CC-FF56-830CEA93BF00/473FB5A9-D20E-8D3E-FF01-E93D9D780A00/files/CountryFlags/cri.svg","FlagPng":"https://api.backendless.com/2F26DFBF-433C-51CC-FF56-830CEA93BF00/473FB5A9-D20E-8D3E-FF01-E93D9D780A00/files/CountryFlagsPng/cri.png"}]}

PD: the request is similar with pNativeName.

Countries with a specific region and subRegion

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pRegion=Americas&pSubRegion=Central%20America

Region and sub region list

• Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Middle Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Western Africa
• Americas
  • Caribbean
  • Central America
  • Northern America
  • South America
• Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Eastern Asia
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Southern Asia
  • Western Asia
• Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • Northern Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Western Europe
• Oceania
  • Australia and New Zealand
  • Melanesia
  • Micronesia
  • Polynesia
• Polar

Country with Alpha code 2 or 3

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pAlpha2Code=CR

Countries with english like native language

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pNativeLanguage=eng

Countries with Currency code USD (United States Dollar)

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pCurrencyCode=USD

Countries with an Area (km2) more than 8000 and less than 12000

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pAreaFrom=8000&pAreaTo=12000

Countries with limit and pagination

http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pLimit=25&pPage=1 http://countryapi.gear.host/v1/Country/getCountries?pLimit=25&pPage=2

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Servers

PAAS: Host server .Net Web API 2.0

https://www.gearhost.com/

PAAS: Sql server 2008 free

https://appharbor.com/

BAAS: Free files storage

https://backendless.com/

Current Version

• v1 21/May/2017

Credits

Author Fabián Rosales - Frosquivel Developer

Contributors List of contributors

References

https://restcountries.eu

https://github.com/aredo/restcountries

License

Copyright 2017 Fabian Rosales

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.