A RESTful API for Pokémon - pokeapi.co

Beta GraphQL support is rolling out! Check out the GraphQL paragraph for more info.

Setup  

• Download this source code into a working directory, be sure to use the flag --recurse-submodules to clone also our submodules.

• Install the requirements using pip:

  make install
  # This will install all the required packages and libraries for using PokeAPI
  

• Set up the local development environment using the following command:

  make setup
  

• Run the server on port 8000 using the following command:

  make serve
  

Database setup

To build or rebuild the database by applying any CSV file update, run

make build-db

Visit localhost:8000/api/v2/ to see the running API!

Each time the build-db script is run, it will iterate over each table in the database, wipe it, and rewrite each row using the data found in data/v2/csv.

If you ever need to wipe the database use this command:

make wipe-sqlite-db

If the database schema has changed, generate any outstanding migrations and apply them

make make-migrations
make migrate

Run make help to see all tasks.

Docker and Compose  

There is also a multi-container setup, managed by Docker Compose. This setup allows you to deploy a production-like environment, with separate containers for each service, and is recommended if you need to simply spin up PokéAPI.

Start everything by

make docker-setup

If you don't have make on your machine you can use the following commands

docker compose up -d
docker compose exec -T app python manage.py migrate --settings=config.docker-compose
docker compose exec -T app sh -c 'echo "from data.v2.build import build_all; build_all()" | python manage.py shell --settings=config.docker-compose'

Browse localhost/api/v2/ or localhost/api/v2/pokemon/bulbasaur/ on port 80.

To rebuild the database and apply any CSV file updates, run

make docker-build-db

If the database schema has changed, generate the migrations and apply those

make docker-make-migrations
make docker-migrate

GraphQL  

When you start PokéAPI with the above docker-compose setup, an Hasura Engine server is started as well. It's possible to track all the PokeAPI tables and foreign keys by simply

# hasura cli needs to be installed and available in your $PATH: https://hasura.io/docs/latest/graphql/core/hasura-cli/install-hasura-cli.html
# hasura cli's version has to greater than v2.0.8
make hasura-apply

When finished browse http://localhost:8080 and you will find the admin console. The GraphQL endpoint will be hosted at http://localhost:8080/v1/graphql.

A free public GraphiQL console is browsable at the address https://beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/console/. The relative GraphQL endpoint is accessible at https://beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/v1beta

A set of examples is provided in the directory /graphql/examples of this repository.

Kubernetes  

Kustomize files are provided in the folder https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/tree/master/Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/. Create and change your secrets:

cp Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/secrets/postgres.env.sample Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/secrets/postgres.env
cp Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/secrets/graphql.env.sample Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/secrets/graphql.env
cp Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/config/pokeapi.env.sample Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/config/pokeapi.env
# Edit the newly created files

Configure kubectl to point to a cluster and then run the following commands to start a PokéAPI service.

kubectl apply -k Resources/k8s/kustomize/base/
kubectl config set-context --current --namespace pokeapi # (Optional) Set pokeapi ns as the working ns
# Wait for the cluster to spin up
kubectl exec --namespace pokeapi deployment/pokeapi -- python manage.py migrate --settings=config.docker-compose # Migrate the DB
kubectl exec --namespace pokeapi deployment/pokeapi -- sh -c 'echo "from data.v2.build import build_all; build_all()" | python manage.py shell --settings=config.docker-compose' # Build the db
kubectl wait --namespace pokeapi --timeout=120s --for=condition=complete job/load-graphql # Wait for Graphql configuration job to finish

This k8s setup creates all k8s resources inside the Namespace pokeapi, run kubectl delete namespace pokeapi to delete them. It also creates a Service of type LoadBalancer which is exposed on port 80 and 443. Data is persisted on 12Gi of ReadWriteOnce volumes.

Wrappers

Official wrapper	Repository	Features
Node server-side	PokeAPI/pokedex-promise-v2	Auto caching
Browser client-side	PokeAPI/pokeapi-js-wrapper	Auto caching, Image caching
Java/Kotlin	PokeAPI/pokekotlin
Python 2/3	PokeAPI/pokepy	Auto caching
Python 3	PokeAPI/pokebase	Auto caching, Image caching

Wrapper	Repository	Features
.Net Standard	mtrdp642/PokeApiNet	Auto caching
Dart	prathanbomb/pokedart
Go	mtslzr/pokeapi-go	Auto caching
PHP	lmerotta/phpokeapi	Auto caching, lazy loading
PowerShell	Celerium/PokeAPI-PowerShellWrapper
Python	beastmatser/aiopokeapi	Auto caching, asynchronous
Ruby	rdavid1099/poke-api-v2
Rust	lunik1/pokerust	Auto caching
Scala	juliano/pokeapi-scala	Auto caching
Spring Boot	dlfigueira/spring-pokeapi	Auto caching
Swift	kinkofer/PokemonAPI
Typescript server-side/client-side	Gabb-c/Pokenode-ts	Auto caching

Donations

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Thank you to all our backers! Become a backer

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Contributing

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute

All contributions are welcome: bug fixes, data contributions, and recommendations.

Please see the issues on GitHub before you submit a pull request or raise an issue, someone else might have beat you to it.

To contribute to this repository:

• Fork the project to your own GitHub profile

• Download the forked project using git clone:

  git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:<YOUR_USERNAME>/pokeapi.git
  

• Create a new branch with a descriptive name:

  git checkout -b my_new_branch
  

• Write some code, fix something, and add a test to prove that it works. No pull request will be accepted without tests passing, or without new tests if new features are added.

• Commit your code and push it to GitHub

• Open a new pull request and describe the changes you have made.

• We'll accept your changes after review.

Simple!

Deprecation

As of October 2018, the v1 API has been removed from PokéAPI. For more information, see pokeapi.co/docs/v1.html.