Our Pokedex API

• This pokedex api was created to serve data that is used for a javascript project.
• That project can be found at the links below
  • Github Repository
  • Website

Database

• Setup

  • Our database is setup using postgres so if you want to clone this repo down you will need to ren rails db:setup to start
  • Our seed file requires some work if you want to seed your database with all 807 pokemon.
  • Because we are seeding using the PokeAPI and the Poke API V2 Gem you will need to manually change the while loop in our seeds file.
  • The API supports 100 requests per minute so we recommend seeding 50-75 pokemon at one time.

• Active Version - Our API can be found here: https://pokedex-yeet.herokuapp.com/

Using the API

• Routes

  • All of the routes for our API are available to view pokemon specific information.
  • You can also view information about individual pokemon.
  • We do support 3 different filtering options at this time.
    • Pokemon Type
    • Pokemon Name
    • Pokemon Generation (I, II, III, etc.)

• This API can currently be accessed here

Live Routes

• Pokemon
  • Example Route
    • https://pokedex-yeet.herokuapp.com/v1/pokemon
  • Filter formatting
    • You will need to prepend the following to the above example route
      • ?name=insertNameHere
      • ?type=insertTypeHere
      • ?generation=insertGenerationHere
  • The name filter will display pokemon with a name that includes the string that you pass in
    • For example, charm will return both charmander and charmeleon
  • The type filter will display pokemon that have a matching type
    • This does include multi type pokemon so a fire and flying type will be displayed if you search fire or flying
  • The Generation filter will display all pokemon from that generation
  • Information
    • Name
    • Pokedex Number
    • Image
• Specific Pokemon
  • Example Route
    • https://pokedex-yeet.herokuapp.com/v1/pokemon/1
    • This route will return all of the information for the pokemon bulbasaur
  • Information
    • Here we display all of a pokemon's information
      • Name
      • Pokedex Number
      • Description about the pokemon
      • Their type(s)
      • Height
      • Weight
      • Image
      • Generation

Contributors

• Both the back and frontends of this project were built by Noah Fairbairn and Austin Harlow
• The data that we used for this project is from the PokeApi and The Pokemon Website.