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Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#32

Post by stephen_g »

daveelkan wrote: post #25

found a bug: Australia links to American Samoa in 2025 archive.

Yes I noticed that too, and clicking on Austria takes you to Australia instead! (AU instead of AT which is Austria's country code)

Then when you actually are in Australia, if you click back to 2001 or earlier it changes to 'Ashmore and Cartier Islands'

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#33

Post by ngcc_hk »

MilkMp wrote: post #5
celeryd wrote: post #3

Any way to download them all at once?

Hey there, will add the feature. Wasn't sure if people's computers could handle it all in one, lol, but will make it available in the data export page.

Not all. But some may. And in case you were shut down someone else can continue and one day it may be resurfaced perhaps even in USA.

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#35

Post by MilkMp »

stephen_g wrote: post #32
daveelkan wrote: post #25

found a bug: Australia links to American Samoa in 2025 archive.

Yes I noticed that too, and clicking on Austria takes you to Australia instead! (AU instead of AT which is Austria's country code) Then when you actually are in Australia, if you click back to 2001 or earlier it changes to 'Ashmore and Cartier Islands'

Will fix. Thank you! Most likely a grouping problem due to the MasterCountry ID.

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#36

Post by MilkMp »

nubg wrote: post #27
MilkMp wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will scale the website

To clarify, I am a shill for fly.io and wanted to get you to spend more money by scaling it up. The site loaded instantaneously on the first try, so fast I thought it was local.

All good. Needed to be scaled anyway:)

Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#37

Post by MilkMp »

ix101 wrote: post #23
MilkMp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, what features would you like to see??

Hi, thanks for this! Not sure if you're aware that clicking Australia goes to American Samoa, similar issue with some others that I encountered (Bahamas -> Burkina faso).

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Re: Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable

#40

Post by roysting »

Hi. Nice project. One issue though; if you go to the Factbook for any year[1], the link to the entry for “Germany”[2] will take you to the entry for the Gambia for every year I have checked. I have not noticed any other countries where that happens.

[1] https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/archive/2002

[2] https://cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev/archive/2002/GM

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