country-code-to-continent.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json

#Accessing the Webpage
result = requests.get('https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json')

#Getting the content of the webpage
content = result.content

#Beautiful-souping it
bsoup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'html5lib')

#Getting the table data cells from the page with a specific class - (Use Chrome Dev Tools)
tds = bsoup.find_all('td', class_='content')

#An array of the possible continents
continents = []
for td in tds[1:14]:
    continents.append(td.text.split('\n')[1].split(' ')[-1])

code_to_continent = {}

#Key-value pairs of country code to their respective continent
for continent in continents: 
    if continent != 'meta':
        url = 'https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json/tree/master/{c}'.format(c=continent)
        countries_page = requests.get(url)
        content = countries_page.content
        bsoup = BeautifulSoup(content, 'html5lib')
        tds = bsoup.find_all('td', class_='content')
        for td in tds[1:]:
            code_to_continent[td.text.split('\n')[1].split(' ')[-1].split('.')[0]] = continent