Hello,
allow me to highlight the factbook gem [1] - that bundles up
scripts - yes, in ruby - for the world factbook
(that lets you download & convert country profiles in open
structured data e.g JSON, produce your own personal world almanac, and
more.
The public factbook.json datsets and factbook/country-profiles get
auto-updated every week on Thursdays - thanks to the factbook gem
(and github actions / workflow automation).
See the Ukraine country profile [2a] (in structured text using markdown
formatting conventions) as an example to learn more
about the country under attack by the brutal aggression of Vladmir
Putin and his supporters (and willing executioners).
See the europe/up.json for structured data version in json. [2b]
The Geography location section reads:
"Location": {
"text": "Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania,
and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east"
},
"Land boundaries": {
"total": {
"text": "5,581 km"
},
"border countries": {
"text": "Belarus 1111 km, Hungary 128 km, Moldova 1202 km,
Poland 498 km,
Romania 601 km, Russia 1944 km, Slovakia 97 km"
}
},
And the People section reads:
"People and Society": {
"Population": {
"text": "43,745,640 (July 2021 est.)"
},
"Ethnic groups": {
"text": "Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%,
Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%,
Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish
0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 est.)"
},
Questions and comments welcome.
Bonus for sharing your ruby scripts to learn more about the (real)
world that has changed forever on February 24th, 2022 with the brutal
aggression and invasion into Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and his
supporters (and willing executioners).
Cheers. Prost.
[1] GitHub - factbook/factbook: factbook gem - scripts for the world factbook (get open structured data e.g JSON etc.)
[2a] country-profiles/ukraine.md at master · factbook/country-profiles · GitHub
[2b] factbook.json/up.json at master · factbook/factbook.json · GitHub