API: All countries data
This country data is scraped from a websitepackage main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"github.com/gocolly/colly"
"github.com/gorilla/mux"
)
type Product struct {
Title string `json:"title"`
Capital string `json:"capital"`
Population string `json:"population"`
Area string `json:"area"`
}
func scrapeWebsite() ([]Product, error) {
var products []Product
url := "https://www.scrapethissite.com/pages/simple/"
collector := colly.NewCollector()
collector.OnError(func(r *colly.Response, e error) {
fmt.Println("Error occurred!:", e)
})
collector.OnHTML(".col-md-4.country", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
product := Product{
Title: e.ChildText("h3"),
Capital: e.ChildText(".country-capital"),
Population: e.ChildText(".country-population"),
Area: e.ChildText(".country-area"),
}
products = append(products, product)
})
err := collector.Visit(url)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
collector.Wait()
return products, nil
}
func getScrapedDataHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
data, err := scrapeWebsite()
if err != nil {
http.Error(w, "Oops, An error occured", http.StatusInternalServerError)
return
}
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(data)
}
func main() {
r := mux.NewRouter()
r.HandleFunc("/api/countries", getScrapedDataHandler).Methods("GET")
log.Println("Server running on port 8080")
log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r))
}
To run on local host:
1. Make sure you have go installed on your machine.
2. Create a folder . Call it whatever you want.
3. Create main.go file in the folder you created.
4. Open folder in terminal(linux and macos) or cmd(windows)
5.Initialize Go to this folder,to do so, run this:
go mod init countriesapi
6.Now run the main.go file.
go run main.go
Now test your api by visiting
http://localhost:8080/api/countriesCode by:
@RealOptimusPrimeBotChannel:
@TheInfinityAPIsHubget code on github:
https://github.com/NotoriousBigg/CountriesAPIShare with credits
