This script is used to download the flag images from web www.sciencekids.co.nz

flag_downloader.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib

countries = [
'Afghanistan',
'Albania',
'Algeria',
'Andorra',
'Angola',
'Antigua and Barbuda',
'Argentina',
'Armenia',
'Australia',
'Austria',
'Azerbaijan',
'Bahamas',
'Bahrain',
'Bangladesh',
'Barbados',
'Belarus',
'Belgium',
'Belize',
'Benin',
'Bermuda',
'Bhutan',
'Bolivia',
'Bosnia and Herzegovina',
'Botswana',
'Brazil',
'Brunei',
'Bulgaria',
'Burkina Faso',
'Burundi',
'Cambodia',
'Cameroon',
'Canada',
'Cape Verde',
'Cayman Islands',
'Central African Republic',
'Chad',
'Chile',
'China',
'Colombia',
'Comoros',
'Cook Islands',
'Costa Rica',
'Croatia',
'Cuba',
'Cyprus',
'Czech Republic',
'Democratic Republic of the Congo',
'Denmark',
'Djibouti',
'Dominica',
'Dominican Republic',
'East Timor',
'Ecuador',
'Egypt',
'El Salvador',
'England',
'Equatorial Guinea',
'Eritrea',
'Estonia',
'Ethiopia',
'Fiji',
'Finland',
'France',
'Gabon',
'Georgia',
'Germany',
'Ghana',
'Greece',
'Greenland',
'Grenada',
'Guam',
'Guatemala',
'Guinea',
'Guinea-Bissau',
'Guyana',
'Haiti',
'Honduras',
'Hong Kong',
'Hungary',
'Iceland',
'India',
'Indonesia',
'Iran',
'Iraq',
'Ireland',
'Israel',
'Italy',
'Ivorycoast',
'Jamaica',
'Japan',
'Jordan',
'Kazakhstan',
'Kenya',
'Kiribati',
'Kuwait',
'Kyrgyzstan',
'Laos',
'Latvia',
'Lebanon',
'Lesotho',
'Liberia',
'Libya',
'Liechtenstein',
'Lithuania',
'Luxembourg',
'Macedonia',
'Madagascar',
'Malawi',
'Malaysia',
'Maldives',
'Mali',
'Malta',
'Mauritania',
'Mauritius',
'Mexico',
'Moldova',
'Monaco',
'Mongolia',
'Montenegro',
'Morocco',
'Mozambique',
'Myanmar',
'Namibia',
'Nauru',
'Nepal',
'Netherlands',
'New Caledonia',
'New Zealand',
'Nicaragua',
'Niger',
'Nigeria',
'North Korea',
'Norway',
'Oman',
'Pakistan',
'Palau',
'Palestine',
'Panama',
'Papua New Guinea',
'Paraguay',
'Peru',
'Philippines',
'Poland',
'Portugal',
'Puerto Rico',
'Qatar',
'Republic of the Congo',
'Romania',
'Russia',
'Rwanda',
'Saint Kitts and Nevis',
'Saint Lucia',
'Saint Vincent and the Grenadines',
'Samoa',
'San Marino',
'Sao Tome and Principe',
'Saudi Arabia',
'Scotland',
'Senegal',
'Serbia',
'Seychelles',
'Sierra Leone',
'Singapore',
'Slovakia',
'Slovenia',
'Solomon Islands',
'Somalia',
'South Africa',
'South Korea',
'South Sudan',
'Spain',
'Sri Lanka',
'Sudan',
'Suriname',
'Swaziland',
'Sweden',
'Switzerland',
'Syria',
'Taiwan',
'Tajikistan',
'Tanzania',
'Thailand',
'theGambia',
'Togo',
'Tonga',
'Trinidad and Tobago',
'Tunisia',
'Turkey',
'Turkmenistan',
'Tuvalu',
'Uganda',
'Ukraine',
'United Arab Emirates',
'United Kingdom',
'United States',
'Uruguay',
'Uzbekistan',
'Vanuatu',
'Venezuela',
'Vietnam',
'Wales',
'Yemen',
'Zambia',
'Zimbabwe'
]

base = 'http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/images/pictures/flags680/'

def download_image(file_name, url):
    f = open(file_name, 'wb')
    f.write(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
    f.close()

def format_url(file_name):
    return base + file_name;

def format_file_name(name):
    words = name.split(' ');
    return "_".join(words) + '.jpg'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    name = 'Bosnia and Herzegovina'

    for i in countries:
        name = i
        file_name = format_file_name(name)
        url = format_url(file_name)
        print url

        download_image(file_name, url)

    print 'Done!'