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pokebase is a simple but powerful Python interface to the PokéAPI database

IMPORTANT

pokebase is under heavy construction right now, in order to clean up the code and make it easier to maintain. I have also dropped support for Python 2.7, for the time being. Hopefully this can be added in later. I recommend you continue using version 1.2.0, download via pip. Once I deem these new changes stable, I'll do another PyPI release (with fancy new shelve caching!)

Planned To-do's for the current construction:

• APISubresource access
• complete rewrite of the docstrings, and hosting on readthdocs.io
• Python 2.7 support

Installation

pip install pokebase

It can't get much easier than that.

Usage

>>> import pokebase as pb
>>> chesto = pb.APIResource('berry', 'chesto')
>>> chesto.name
'chesto'
>>> chesto.natural_gift_type.name
'water'
>>> charmander = pb.pokemon('charmander')  # Quick lookup.
>>> charmander.height
6
>>> # Now with sprites! (again!)
>>> s1 = pb.SpriteResource('pokemon', 17)
<pokebase.interface.SpriteResource object at 0x7f2f15660860>
>>> s1.url
'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/17.png'
>>> s2 = pb.SpriteResource('pokemon', 1, other_sprites=True, official_artwork=True)
>>> s2.path
'/home/user/.cache/pokebase/sprite/pokemon/other-sprites/official-artwork/1.png'
>>> s3 = pb.SpriteResource('pokemon', 3, female=True, back=True)
>>> s3.img_data
b'\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n\x00\x00\x00\rIHDR\x00\x00\x00 ... \xca^\x7f\xbbd*\x00\x00\x00\x00IEND\xaeB`\x82'

... And it's just that simple.

Version Support

pokebase currently (officially) supports Python 3.6

Nomenclature

• an endpoint is the results of an API call like http://pokeapi.co/api/v2/berry or http://pokeapi.co/api/v2/move
• a resource is the actual data, from a call to http://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/1

Testing

Python unittests are in a separate tests directory, and can be run via python -m tests.

Notes to the developer using this module

The quick data lookup for a Pokémon type, is pokebase.type_('type-name'), not pokebase.type('type-name'). This is because of a naming conflict with the built-in type function, were you to from pokebase import *.

When changing the cache, avoid importing the cache constants directly. You should only import them with the whole cache module. If you do not do this, calling set_cache will not change your local copy of the variable.

NOT THIS!

>>> from pokebase.cache import API_CACHE

Do this :)

>>> from pokebase import cache
>>> cache.API_CACHE