Generation 8 data

[Naramsim]

PokeAPI has decided to take a temporary shift from https://github.com/veekun/pokedex and thus to allow the community to add the new generation 8 data.

The process to add new data consists as follows:

1. Decide which new data you want to bring in.
2. Look up here how this data is structured in our CSV files
3. Add the new data manually or by using a script and documenting where did you get those pieces of data, read also this document.
4. Open 2 Pull Requests
   • Towards https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokedex with only the CSV data and the scripts you used to gather it
   • Here with the new data and any changes to our API logic to make it work.

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Sources that might be used for scraping/checking new generation 8 data are:

• Bulbapedia
• Serebii
• PokemonDB
• Pokemon.com
• Pokemon ROMs dump files

[RyanVereque]

I didn't see this specific issue when I posted on Veekun, but I did know that this branch was trying to temporarily add Gen 8 data. Let me link a little write-up I posted there for some data I've gathered from Bulbapedia scrapped with Node(Browser). It's not python, so unless I migrate my code, it'll just be CSV edits for now. Would 2 Pulls consisting of CSV edits be acceptable ? (And of course I'd make sure IDs( and "foreign keys") within the CSV edits are consistent with this fork.
veekun/pokedex#284 (comment)

[Naramsim]

Hi @RyanVereque, surely we are interested in your contribution! We've already updated some csv files.

If you are willing you could modify some other files with your scripts (or extend our modified files/scripts). The important part is that we don't want to change in any way the format of the data, so no columns additions or new file creations.

If you like to discuss further I suggest you open an issue over at our fork so we can discuss it freely.

[CMahk]

I recently ported a section of pkNX dedicated to parsing the dex entry files (zukan_comment_A / B) in the Let's Go! / SwSh game ROM file systems. It at least provides a baseline to work with.

[Naramsim]

@CMahk, when you're done we and the folks at @veekun will be enthusiasts to have your data :)

[git-stitch]

I didn't know you changed your policy for community. I have a complete serebii scraper and started a Poke-simple-api on Rails. I could modify the data to be able to give you serebii's data in a CSV file. Stats, Img, Evo-chain, Ability, Location, Entry have all been scraped.

Edit: you already have all this information. What's missing?

[Naramsim]

Edit: you already have all this information. What's missing?

Basically all gen-8 data :)

[git-stitch]

Edit: you already have all this information. What's missing?

Basically all gen-8 data :)

Ayyyyyy since I built this for no reason I'm still gonna publish it but that's great.

[artrixdotdev]

Have you looked at smogon and their repo? they have some pretty trustworthy info there.. its worth looking at.

[zihadmahiuddin]

Looks like both pokemon.csv and pokemon_species.csv have the gen 8 Pokémon added. But pokemon_species_names.csv still doesn't have them.
I was planning to add those so I am looking for "requirements". Like, which languages must be included etc.

Bulbapedia doesn't have the names in a lot of languages. And they only have the genus in English. Should I use Google Translate for the genus names or just keep them empty or something? Asking this because Google Translate is not always accurate.

And thank you very much for the opportunity to contribute.

[Naramsim]

@zihadmahiuddin

I was planning to add those so I am looking for "requirements". Like, which languages must be included etc.

Currently, we have all of these: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/language

Bulbapedia doesn't have the names in a lot of languages. And they only have the genus in English. Should I use Google Translate for the genus names or just keep them empty or something? Asking this because Google Translate is not always accurate.

😸 Of course, don't use GTranslate :)

Here are the French ones: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_French_Pok%C3%A9mon_names At page end you find an infobox and in the first row there are the links to other languages, such as Japanese

[Naramsim]

@strikingforce909

Have you looked at smogon and their repo? they have some pretty trustworthy info there.. its worth looking at.

We've already looked at Smogon's resources. They have loads of data related to battles and such. So it could be a nice resource to pull data from.