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location:generate-countries

Generates/updates the database/data/countries.json dataset (English-only, rich metadata).

Signature​

php artisan location:generate-countries \
  --out= \
  --source= \
  --phone-metadata= \
  --pretty

Options​

  • --out: Output file path (defaults to the package database/data/countries.json)
  • --source: Source URL (defaults to RestCountries countriesV3.1.json on GitHub)
  • --phone-metadata: Phone metadata URL (defaults to Google libphonenumber metadata XML)
  • --pretty: Pretty-print JSON output

Notes​

The generated dataset includes fields used by the import command (key, name, flag, mobile prefix, validations, address template) plus additional rich metadata.