How to programmatically get the coordinates of a polygon (area) from OSM?

Question

JavaScript

Good afternoon
Is there an API for OSM that can return the coordinates of a polygon by its name?
For example, I give Kyrgyzstan Ivanovka - and the coordinates of the Ivanovka polygon are returned to me (OSM has them =)) - no matter in what format?

Answer 1

Found the answer
If anyone is interested - then here is the source code

$q = "Киргизия ивановка";
        $url = "http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=".urlencode($q)."&format=json&polygon_geojson=1";
        $ch = curl_init($url); // such as http://example.com/example.xml
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
        $data = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        $a = json_decode($data);

Answer 2

overpass-turbo dig. It made a search and selection of OSM elements in a certain area (you will need to at least know approximately where to look). output format is configurable by osm json etc.