Share your Suggestions, Feedback & Improvements for API here.

[dr5hn]

Hello all 👋🏼 ,

I would like to request everyone who is using this API, please share their suggestions, feedbacks & improvements.

[dr5hn]

@samihoda can you please send me your implementation files so that i can check ?

[samihoda]

I sent it via email. Thanks!

[dr5hn]

@samihoda CORS Issue Fixed.

[samihoda]

@dr5hn It works! I'll make changes in my site and give it a good QA round, will let you know if I encounter any additional issues. Thanks.

[renegng]

Hi @dr5hn amazing API! Love it! Just one thing I noticed: For Honduras Departments, "Bay Island" should be named "Isla de la Bahía" so that it has consistency with the rest of the Departments (since the rest are in spanish too). Thank you so much for your work!

Maybe implementing an option for Database language would be an interesting next version. Let me know if I could help ok!

Best regards!
René

[dr5hn]

@renegng Thanks for suggestions. It's already on my list. 😄

I will fix this ASAP 👉🏼 "Bay Island" should be named "Isla de la Bahía"

[Haaziq-Uvais]

Hi @dr5hn, thank you for this amazing API. I have one request, can you send the longitude and latitude of the cities in the Cities by country API? It's there in the JSON but the API only returns the id and the name of the city. Thanks.

[dr5hn]

Hi @Haaziq-Uvais,

I have purposely not added those data, because due to lots of traffic, current server configurations are not capable of handling this additional data.

Also, I don't get enough donations to make this server maintain & upgrade.

So I am going to add these functionalities in the Paid version. However, I am going to keep this FREE version as it is forever (with data updates but no feature additions).

Hope that makes sense!

[Haaziq-Uvais]

Yes, that makes perfect sense! Is the paid API currently available or if not, any idea when will it be available?

[dr5hn]

I am still working on it! No ETA at the moment.

[akshay1515]

Hey Darshan can you help me with modified json as i require it to build my prototype app to some investors.
i want json of cities by country api response as
{
id: cityid,
name: cityname,
state: statename,
country: countryname,
zipcode : cityzipcode
}

[dr5hn]

@akshay1515 If you know PHP you can get it done by yourself using this script.
https://github.com/dr5hn/countries-states-cities-database/blob/master/scripts/export_csc_npm.php

Cheers.

[XDavidT]

I want to suggest improvement!
Most of the people who build forms and need this API will also need a country phone prefix, maybe add optional request to get phone code with the request together?

[faisalcodes]

It would be very helpful if you add full text search feature in the api. If one searches for a particular term then the related cities, states or countries in the selected category should be returned in the response.

[dr5hn]

@faisalcodes Thanks for the suggestion.

Did you mean open search? Kind of searching in all columns of the data?

If yes, Sure will add it to the PRO version. As this will lead to performative operations this can't be provided in the FREE version.

No ETA for PRO.

[CJ-0221]

Hi @dr5hn ,

Amazing API and thanks for sharing APIKEY very fast. I have a small question the api is not giving all the information on countries list for eg: Flag, iso3 etc. It giving very limited info. do we have to include any to get all the details. please suggest.

[dr5hn]

@CJ-0221 You can get that using CountryDetail API
https://countrystatecity.in/docs/api/country/

I have kept all countries API to minimal information for performance purpose.

[spl-laswi]

Hi @dr5hn,

Thanks for your hard and fantastic work on this API, I have a question: Is there a way to map the city with the state?
For example:
states = v1/countries/US/states;
cities = v1/countries/US/cities;
Then map the cities inside each state by id.
I don't want to send a request for each state to get the cities of it.

[bensonarafat]

The API is cool, but it will be nice to have relationships
Like when fetch country, to have the option to fetch city along

[dr5hn]

There's an API route already available where you can supply country code and get the cities of that country.

[bensonarafat]

Yeah, i know of that..
But what i trying to do, is fetch all the countries with their cities too. with just one request.

The way it is now, i have to fetch the country then fetch the cities.. that's double request i have to send.

[dr5hn]

@bensonarafat I would advise against doing that as it could increase the weight of the response. A heavier response could potentially impact the response time and burden the server load.

[sk7683]

In the cities by country API, Is it possible to add the state code (iso2) and id (state primary key) in the response object?

https://api.countrystatecity.in/v1/countries/IN/cities

[JavaMule]

The APIs are great, I really appreciate your work. Is there any Database table or API for ZIP Codes/Pincodes as below?
Table/API with zipcode/pincode, city, state, country.

[lillyYu]

Hello I found this API super easy to use and helpful for building multi-language site. I have one request on this api.

How about adding translations for states and cities like you do have for the countries. I want to show translated label for each user who visit my site.

Thank you for your awesome work!

[mcl123]

https://countrystatecity.in/request API key why not found?
Thank you!

[dr5hn]

@mcl123 try https://forms.gle/ckZ8Gub6jS9sUihJA

[ppfoong]

I suggest to add in a new boolean column in cities table called is_capital and use it to tag whether the city is a capital of its country.

After that, you can update the field in cities table by using this SQL command:

UPDATE cities
SET is_capital = 1
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM countries WHERE countries.capital = cities.name AND countries.id = cities.country_id);

and then, you can also add a new capital_id column in countries table, and store the capital city's id in that field.