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<pclass="lead">Please take note when using this API:</p>
<ul>
<li>This is a <b>consumption-only</b> API - only the HTTP GET method is available on resources.</li>
<li><b>No authentication</b> is required to access this API. All resources are fully open and available.</li>
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<li>There is, however, a daily rate limit of 300 requests <b>per resource</b> per IP address. So a single IP address can call the <i>bulbasaur</i> resource 300 times a day. Not 300 requests across the entire dataset! This is to stop our database from falling over under heavy load.</li>
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<li>If you are going to be regularly using the API, I recommend caching data on your service.</li>
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<li>Luckily, we provide <b>modified/created datetime stamps</b> on every single resource so you can check for updates (and thus make your caching efficient).</li>
<p>PokéAPI is free and open to use. It is also very popular. Because of this, we ask <b>every developer</b> to abide by our fair use policy. People not complying with the fair use policy will have their IP address permenantly banned.</p>
<p>PokéAPI is primarily an educational tool, and we will not tolerate denial of service attacks preventing people from learning.</p>
<p>Rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Locally cache resources and images when ever you request them.</li>
<li>Do not spam the entire service to scrape all the data at once - use the paginated pages.</li>
<li>Use the correct user-agent header in API requests.</li>
<li>Be nice and friendly to your fellow PokéAPI developer.</li>
<p>Have questions? Ideas? Notice something amiss here in the docs? Hit us up on Slack. Sign up <ahref="https://pokeapi-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/">right here.</a> then visit our <ahref="https://pokeapi.slack.com">slack team</a>.
We'ed encourage you to come here before opening a ticket on github so we can keep our issues nice and organized. Theres also a solid group of people using the api
who may already have answers or plans from experience.</p>