List countries

countries.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: utf-8

# Usage:
# python countries.py | jq -R 'split("\t") | {code: .[4], name: .[0], nameEn: .[1], location: .[5]}' | jq -s .

import sys
import urllib.request
import lxml
import lxml.html

root = lxml.html.parse(urllib.request.urlopen("https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1"))
elements = root.xpath("//tr[contains(*, '国・地域名')]/following-sibling::tr")
for el in elements:
    columns = el.xpath("td")
    if len(columns) < 7:
        print('warning: Skip row',
              [lxml.etree.tostring(c, encoding="utf-8").decode()
                  for c in columns],
              file=sys.stderr)
        continue
    texts = [c.text_content().strip() for c in columns]
    print("\t".join(texts))