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Python 3 Web Scraping to Download Country Flag as PNG Image Using pycountry Module
Jan 9, 2025
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uh Hello friends welcome to this live
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stream so in this live stream we will
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actually be talking about another very
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handy python module which allows you to
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actually download a
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PNG image of a specific country flag so
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here this is actually the python script
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which actually downloads the flag of a
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country here you need to pass the
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country as a command line argument to
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this python script so what it will does
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it will actually go to that URL whatever
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we web scraping that we are doing right
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here it will actually go to that URL and
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actually download the flag and you'll it
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will download it as a PNG image so let
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me just show you a short little demo of
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this python script so as I write inside
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the command line P Python app2 py and
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followed by the country name whichever
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flag that you want to download let me
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say UK so you need to provide the full
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name of the country as it is you'll see
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we provide USA so so the flag is you can
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see downloaded if I once again run it
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with India and pass it you can see flag
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of India has been
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downloaded you can see that so it's a
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very simple python script but it's very
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powerful you can do it unlimited number
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of
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times need to provide the country
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name you can see that
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so you can basically download any
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country flag by passing this as an
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argument
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so now let me show you guys How I build
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this python script and which module that
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we are using so we are actually using
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this py country module which uh is
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available if you just search in on this
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website python modules website just type
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P Country and this is actually the
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command pip install Pi
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country simply it basically get all the
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country Cod s the flags all the
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information about a particular country
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so I'm using latest version of python at
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time of recording this live stream
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3.1.2 point2 and simply install this pip
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install Pi country this is actual
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command of this uh to install this
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module I have already done that so now
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let me just uh rewrite the python
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script and start from scratch so first
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first of all what we need to do right
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here at the very top we need to import
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the system module we need to import the
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request module as well to actually
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request to actually web scrip the URL
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and then we also need to import the pi
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country module as well so the source
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code is given in the description of the
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video you can go to the description and
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purchase the full source code and right
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here we will simply have the main
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function right
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here so here we will simply say if the
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length we will have the length
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function and here you'll simply check
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that if the user pass arguments less
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than two in that case we will simply
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tell to the user that you need to also
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pass the country name like this python
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script. py followed by country
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name like this and then we will exit the
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program like this so here we will need
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to get the country name
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which is passed by the
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user so system
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argv so we need to basically pass the
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country name so whatever country name
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that you will pass we can simply print
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this country name so let's suppose we
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are
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passing if I run this you will get error
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message if you don't pass it you need to
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pass the country name as well so if you
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just type here like this it will say you
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need to also pass the country name
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so it will print out the country name
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you'll see USA so you are printing it so
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now what we need to do we need to
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actually call a simple function which we
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will make download flag and pass the
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country name as an argument so now we
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need to Define this uh function download
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flag and country name will be passed as
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an argument so right inside this
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function what we need to do we need to
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actually
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use this module Pi country and it
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contains this countes function and look
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up you will look up for the country
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which is passed right here country name
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after passing it we will simply return
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the country code so we'll simply say
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country.
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Alpha this is a twood digigit country
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code that it will return so if you just
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print out country.
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Alpha 2 so if you just see uh we also
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need to write here accept if any sort of
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exception take
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place so you will see it will actually
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return the two little two letter digit
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code which is us and if you type another
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country which is I and India for I am so
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we are returning this two-digit country
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code using this module Pi country and
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now using this country code we can
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actually now download the flag
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so so here we need to actually Define
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this function so this function is equal
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to uh get country code so just rename
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this function get country code and here
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we are passing the country
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name country
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name so here what we need to do we need
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to Define this function download flag
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country name
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so inside this function we need to get
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the first of all the country code so we
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will
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basically uh use this function that we
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declared get country code and uh we will
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pass the country name as an argument you
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will see that we are calling this
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function get country code we are
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actually getting the country code here
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after getting the country code we can
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simply say if the country code
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is not is none in that case we can
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simply say that uh
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country code not
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found but if the country code is found
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you can return from it if the country
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code is found then in that case we can
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Define the flag URL and this will be
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https from this website we will download
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the country code flag
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cdn.com w 320 we are actually web
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scraping it using the country code that
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we got from PI country module so we are
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basically using this country code do
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lower.
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PNG so this is actually the website guys
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if you just
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see if I just paste this in the URL type
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here so it will actually give you this
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uh we are actually call copying
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this we need to convert this into you
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will see you can get any flag right here
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just you need to pass the two two letter
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digit code of a specific country so Au n
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z you'll see that so we are web scraping
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it using python programmatically using
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the request module so now we need to
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Simply say try response we'll use the
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request module to actually get this URL
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flag URL and uh we will simply say if
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response. status code is equal to 200 in
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that case is success in that case we
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will simply say file name
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f country name.
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replace so here we are simply defining
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the file
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l so you can see that we're defining the
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file name and we can also have exess
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section so after defining the file name
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we now need to save this PNG file as an
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local file so in our computer so for
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saving it we'll open use the open
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function as write binary for writing the
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file inside the local file system as
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file and then we'll say file. write
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whatever response content response.
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content that's all and then we can
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simply have a print statement that flag
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has been
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downloaded so this is actually the
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overall python script guys it first of
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all fetches the country code two letter
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digit country code using this module Pi
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country and then it uses web scraping to
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actually download the image of the flag
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using this URL bu passing the country
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code and saving it using the open
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function so if you just type right here
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call The Script
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so flag has been downloaded if I see
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right here the flag is downloaded you
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will see that so if I pass another code
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right here Sweden and you will see that
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Sweden flag is
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downloaded so if the country doesn't
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exist then it will return error message
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could not find a record for
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you can see that so all the flags are
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you can see fetched downloaded as a PNG
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file guys thank you very much for
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