CIA Factbook Grep in Python
This project is just a quick python script that parses the CIA world factbook, searches for a specific property, like population, and prints this property for all countries in the database.
Type: grepCia.py capital and you'll get a list of countries and capitals. It works for almost all properties speficied in the CIA datase.
The program makes a good start for any CIA data harvesting hacks.
downloadable files
| grepCia.py | Source code for this project. Run the script and pass something like capital |
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by Gideon
How does this work?
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by Demosthenese
it's MAGIC!!!!
seems to be no more really up to date :-)
by tk
have a look at
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2057.html
implementation from there would probably be much faster than now.
but anyway: nice hack!!
Its so much faster now.
by Thomas
Great idea tk,
I've had a go at implementing it from the page you suggest. Also I've removed any extraneous new lines and html in the output.
See http://www.viner.plus.com/grepCiaVer2.py.txt
But wouldn't it be cool if it could give say the top 10 countries by GDP or total land area?
PS love the site Douwe.
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