World Info

An NPM package which helps you get any information of any Country.

There are 2 modules in this package. Future functions/modules will be added based on usage and necessity.

The first module is the General module with the following functions:

getCapital - Fetches the capital given a Country as a string input.

getTimezones - Fetches the UTC timezones given a Country as a string input. Returns a promise.

getFlag - Fetches a SVG image given a Country as string input.

getCurrency - Fetches the Country's currency code, currency name and currency symbol given a Country as string input. Returns a json array.

The second module is the Holiday Calendar module with the following functions:

getCountryCode - Fetches the list of countries and the country_codes eligible to be used under this module along with the holiday_type.

getHolidaysForYear - Fetches a JSON object with a list of holidays for a given countryCode and year. The default holidayType is public_holiday.

getHolidaysForMonth - Fetches a JSON object with a list of holidays for a given countryCode, year and month. The default holidayType is public_holiday.

isPublicHoliday - Fetches JSON object with key isPublicHoliday and value true|false when given countryCode and date as input parameters.

isWorkDay - Fetches a JSON object with key isWorkDay and value true|false when given countryCode and date as input parameters.

Following are the input parameters description:

countryCode - ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code or ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
holidayType -

• all - all holiday types
• public_holiday - public holidays
• observance - observances, not a public holidays
• school_holiday - school holidays
• other_day - other important days e.g. Mother's day, Father's day etc
• extra_working_day - extra working days. This day takes place mostly on Saturday or Sunday and is substituted for extra public holiday.
  date - Date in format dd-mm-yyyy

Installation Instructions

npm i world-info

How to use

var worldInfo = require('world-info')
worldInfo.getCapital('India')
worldInfo.getTimeZones('India').then(data => doWhateverWith(data))
worldInfo.getFlag('India').then(data => doWhateverWith(data))
worldInfo.getCurrency('India').then(data => doWhateverWith(data))
worldInfo.getHolidaysForMonth('gbr','2019','1').then(data=>doWhateverWith(data))