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 using the following command:

  make serve
  

Database setup

Start the Django shell by

python manage.py shell --settings=config.local

Run the build script with

from data.v2.build import build_all
build_all()

Visit localhost:80/api/v2/ to see the running API!

Each time the build 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.

The option to build individual portions of the database was removed in order to increase performance of the build script.

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

make wipe_db

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 services and is recommended if you need to simply spin up PokeAPI.

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.

GraphQL

When you start PokeAPI 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 be v2.0.0-alpha.5
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 are provided in the directory /graphql/examples of this repository.

Official REST Wrappers

• Node server-side PokeAPI/pokedex-promise-v2 | Auto caching
• Browser client-side PokeAPI/pokeapi-js-wrapper | Auto caching
• Java/Kotlin PokeAPI/pokekotlin
• Python 3 GregHilmes/pokebase | Auto caching
• Python 2/3 PokeAPI/pokepy | Auto caching
• PHP lmerotta/phpokeapi | Auto caching, lazy loading
• Ruby rdavid1099/poke-api-v2
• .Net Standard mtrdp642/PokeApiNet | Auto caching
• Go mtslzr/pokeapi-go | Auto caching
• Dart prathanbomb/pokedart
• Rust lunik1/pokerust | Auto caching
• Spring Boot dlfigueira/spring-pokeapi | Auto caching
• Swift kinkofer/PokemonAPI

Donations

Help to keep PokéAPI running! If you're using PokéAPI as a teaching resource or for a project, consider sending us a $10 donation to help keep the service up. We get 60 million requests a month!

Thank you to all our backers! Become a backer

Join Us On Slack!

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Once you've signed up visit PokéAPI on Slack

Contributing

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute

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