Fetching data through State-Province

[tarunbisht-24]

There's a problem when you send the request based on state province like if someone wants to get all the universities based on the state.

URL:- http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=united+states&state-province=Alaska

Also, if someone wants universities based on country, then state-wise to narrow down the search.

URL:- http://universities.hipolabs.com/search?name=india&country=India&state-province=Assam

Solution (to change the filter.py file based on state-province):-

import json
import sys


def filter_by_country_and_state(data, country=None, state_province=None):
    def filter(entry):
        country_match = country is None or entry["country"].lower() == country.lower()
        state_match = state_province is None or (entry["state-province"] and entry["state-province"].lower() == state_province.lower())
        return country_match and state_match

    return [entry for entry in data if filter(entry)]


def main():
    args = sys.argv[1:]
    
    if len(args) == 0:
        print("Usage: filter.py <country/state-province> [state-province]")
        return

    # Load the source data
    with open("./world_universities_and_domains.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as src_file:
        data = json.load(src_file)

    # Check if the first argument is a country or a state/province
    country_or_state = args[0]
    state_province = args[1] if len(args) > 1 else None

    # If the first argument matches any country in the data, treat it as a country
    countries = set(entry["country"].lower() for entry in data)
    if country_or_state.lower() in countries:
        country = country_or_state
    else:
        country = None
        state_province = country_or_state

    # Filter the data
    filtered_data = filter_by_country_and_state(data, country, state_province)

    # Write the filtered result
    with open("./filtered_world_universities_and_domains.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as dest_file:
        json.dump(filtered_data, dest_file, ensure_ascii=False, indent=4)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Also why the request uses HTTP Protocol instead of HTTPS?

[kittykill-exe]

I also see API only work with http, not https.
There is open issue #389