worldwide 🗺️

Typed world country data for Gleam: currencies, languages, calling codes, timezones.

Sourced from countries.dev.

• worldwide.request() builds the HTTP request for whichever countries.dev endpoint you need.
• worldwide.decoder() turns the response into typed data.

Install

gleam add worldwide

Usage

import gleam/httpc
import gleam/json
import gleam/result
import gleam/string
import gleam/time/duration.{type Duration}
import worldwide
import worldwide/country.{type Country}
import worldwide/region

pub fn get_countries() -> Result(List(Country), _) {
  use request <- result.try(
    worldwide.request()
    |> result.map_error(fn(_) { "failed to build request" }),
  )
  use response <- result.try(
    httpc.send(request)
    |> result.map_error(fn(_) { "request failed" }),
  )
  response.body
  |> json.parse(worldwide.decoder())
  |> result.map_error(fn(_) { "decoding failed" })
}

pub fn main() {
  let assert Ok(countries) = get_countries()

  let ordered_timezones: List(Duration) =
    countries
    |> list.map(fn(country) { country.timezones })
    |> list.flatten()
    |> list.sort(duration.compare)

  // Or let countries.dev do the filtering for you: by region, subregion,
  // currency, language, calling code, or timezone.
  let assert Ok(europe_req) =
    worldwide.filter(worldwide.ByRegion(region.Europe))
}

This works the same way with any other HTTP client that can send a gleam/http/request.Request(String) and give you back a body string. For example, you can use the gleam/fetch library if you want to work with the JavaScript target.

Or: vendor the data at build time

If you’d rather not fetch or decode anything at runtime, worldwide also ships a generator that writes the data straight into your project as plain Gleam source.

gleam add worldwide gleam_time
gleam run -m worldwide/pull_countries

This fetches the current countries.dev list and writes src/countries.gleam: a single pub fn all() -> List(worldwide/country.Country) built from worldwide’s own public types. worldwide stays a regular dependency. The generated file hard-codes the country data and uses worldwide’s types, but nothing in your compiled app needs to send requests or parse JSON:

import gleam/list
import worldwide/countries

pub fn main() {
  let currencies =
    countries.all()
    |> list.map(fn(country) { country.currencies })
    |> list.flatten()
    |> list.unique()
}

Pass a path to generate elsewhere (gleam run -m worldwide/pull_countries src/world_data), and use gleam run -m worldwide/pull_countries check in CI to fail the build when the generated file is stale against the current countries.dev data, without writing anything.