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This seems to have been answered here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62028827/how-to-get-country-name-from-country-code-in-javascript
Nov 9, 2021
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Javascript how to get Country code from country name?
Hi,
I would like to get the country code from a country name using plain vanilla javascript?
United Kingdom = UK
South Africa = ZA
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@chrisgrim no, I have the country name, I need the shortened code
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Wait, this one might be better https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63829822/get-country-code-by-country-name-javascript
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@chrisgrim this isn't working?!
races.forEach((race) => {
fetch(`https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/${race.Circuit.Location.country}`).then(resp=>{
return resp.json();
}).then(json=>{
var country = json[0].alpha2Code;
console.log('country', country);
})
}
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@boyjarv I am actually having a hard time finding a way to do this from the browser There is this plugin https://www.npmjs.com/package/country-code-lookup however that requires getting a plugin
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I tried this:
fetch("https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/kenya").then(resp=>{
console.log('resp: ',resp);
return resp.json();
}).then(json=>{
console.log('Kenya: ',json[0].alpha2Code);
})
Can't get anything logged out?!
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@boyjarv When I tried to use the restcountries.eu link it didn't grab anything.
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ok so I have created a country list array: I just want to filter out my
country:
races.Circuit.Location.country
and return code3
const countryListAllIsoData = [
{"code": "AF", "code3": "AFG", "name": "Afghanistan", "number": "004"},
{"code": "AL", "code3": "ALB", "name": "Albania", "number": "008"},
{"code": "DZ", "code3": "DZA", "name": "Algeria", "number": "012"},
{"code": "AS", "code3": "ASM", "name": "American Samoa", "number": "016"},
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@boyjarv If you have an Array, you can find an element using a callback, e.g.:
let found = countryListAllIsoData.find(country => country.name === races.Circuit.Location.country);
let code = found ? found.code3 : 'n/a';
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@boyjarv To find the country and return the code I would use
countryListAllIsoData.find( country => country.name === 'Algeria').code
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@chrisgrim that will fail if the result of find is undefined; needs some fault tolerance
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Thank you for your help @chrisgrim !
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