Need a reliable list of world leaders/minister in MS Excel.

April 16, 2009 1:46 PM

I need a regularly updated, reliable list of world leaders/ministers (ideally, all the information contained here) in Excel format. Help!

I've been going to the CIA.gov website to check on world leaders, but need something that will allow me to extract the data and use it elsewhere.

Is there another source for this information that is as reliable as that on the CIA.gov website? Thanks!

posted by BobbyVan to law & government (3 comments total)

You could do this using Wikipedia and xml perhaps?
posted by Lucubrator at 1:53 PM on April 16

With a combination of copy-and-paste and a few regular expressions, I have made you this data file: http://michaelt.uwcs.co.uk/askmefi4.txt. Import into Excel as a tab-delimated text file.

How regularly are you looking to get this data updated?
posted by Mike1024 at 3:34 PM on April 16 [1 favorite]

Oh wow, that's great Mike. I think the website updates once a month, but I can probably keep up with changes myself from here.

Still, it would be great if someone out there knows about a freely accessible Excel-type file with frequently updated & reliable information in this area.
posted by BobbyVan at 4:31 PM on April 16