How to use REST Countries — a practical guide
If you're here, you probably want working code in five minutes. That's exactly what this guide does.
Five steps to get started
- 1GET /v3.1/all for all countries.
- 2/v3.1/name/israel for a name.
- 3/v3.1/alpha/il for ISO code.
Shortest snippet that will actually run
curl "https://restcountries.com/v3.1/alpha/il"Common mistakes (the honest list)
Don't fetch /all every time — download once and cache.