Download SVG country flags and css, then convert the codes from the iso 3166 two character codes to three character codes.
./get_flags.sh
Then copy the flag-icon.css file into public/css and the flags directory to public/.
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Download flag css and convert to 3 char country codes
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| /* globals require, console */ | |
| 'use strict'; | |
| var fs = require('fs'); | |
| var path = require('path'); | |
| var process = require('process'); | |
| // destination output | |
| var destDir = 'flags'; | |
| try { | |
| fs.mkdirSync(destDir); | |
| } catch (err) { | |
| if (err.code !== 'EEXIST') { | |
| console.error(err); | |
| process.exit(1); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // read mappings | |
| var contents = fs.readFileSync('iso-3166.json', 'utf8'); | |
| var iso3166 = JSON.parse(contents); | |
| var mappings = {}; | |
| for (var i = 0; i < iso3166.length; i++) { | |
| var key = iso3166[i]['alpha-2'].toLowerCase(); | |
| var val = iso3166[i]['alpha-3'].toLowerCase(); | |
| mappings[key] = val; | |
| } | |
| // rename svg files | |
| var flagDir = 'flag-icon-css-0.8.4/flags/4x3'; | |
| var files = fs.readdirSync(flagDir); | |
| for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { | |
| var f = files[i]; | |
| var src = path.join(flagDir, f); | |
| var file = path.parse(f); | |
| var newName = mappings[file.name] + file.ext; | |
| var dst = path.join(destDir, newName); | |
| fs.createReadStream(src).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(dst)); | |
| } | |
| // create the css | |
| var cssFile = 'flag-icon-css-0.8.4/css/flag-icon.css'; | |
| var content = fs.readFileSync(cssFile, 'utf-8'); | |
| for (var twoChar in mappings) { | |
| if (mappings.hasOwnProperty(twoChar)) { | |
| var threeChar = mappings[twoChar]; | |
| var re = new RegExp('.*\.flag-icon-squared {\n.*\n}\n'); | |
| content = content.replace(re, ''); | |
| re = new RegExp('4x3/' + twoChar + '\.svg'); | |
| content = content.replace(re, threeChar + '.svg'); | |
| re = new RegExp('flag-icon-' + twoChar + ' '); | |
| content = content.replace(re, 'flag-icon-' + threeChar + ' '); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| fs.writeFileSync('flag-icon.css', content, 'utf8') |
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| echo 'Downloading ISO 3166 mappings..' | |
| curl -sL -o iso-3166.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes/master/all/all.json | |
| echo 'Downloading SVG icon flags...' | |
| curl -sL https://github.com/lipis/flag-icon-css/archive/0.8.4.tar.gz | tar xzf - | |
| echo 'Converting ISO 3166 codes from 2 character codes to 3 character codes..' | |
| node ./convert_codes.js | |
| echo 'Cleaning up...' | |
| rm iso-3166.json | |
| rm -rf flag-icon-css-0.8.4 | |
| echo 'SVG flags are in the "flags" directory and style sheet is "flag-icon.css"' |
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Thank you @jgoodall, Good script. I had to modify it to change lines 30 and 42 from this directory:
flag-icon-css-0.8.4/
To this:
flag-icons-0.8.4/
But worked well after that.