pkmn

pokeapi.co wrapper. Details about the api can be found here: http://pokeapi.co/docs/

Install

$ npm install --save pkmn

Usage

var Pkmn = require('pkmn');
var p = new Pkmn();

Get

All methods return a bluebird promise.

.get requires two arguments, a resource and an id. id can be a string, number, or array.

p.get('pokemon', 'meowth')
    .then(pokemon => /* do something */)
    .catch(err => /* handle error */);
    
p.get('pokemon', [1, 'mew'])
    .then(console.log) // logs [{name: 'Bulbasaur' ...}, {name: 'Mew'...}]

Errors and responses from the pokeapi that are not of status code 200 will be rejected.

p.get('pokemon', 'Vegeta')
    .catch(console.error) // logs [Error] 404

Too few arguments to .get also throws an error. All resources except pokedex require an id argument to passed to .get with them.

p.get('pokemon')
    .then(console.log)    // doesn't log
    .catch(console.error) // logs [Error] id argument required
    
p.get('pokedex')
    .then(console.log) // logs the pokedex

The full list of valid resources is:

pokedex, pokemon, egg, type, description, move, ability, sprite, game

Additionally, .get can take a resource_id as an argument. This is useful because most responses from pokeapi will have have a resource_id field. For example, a pokemon will come with a list of moves, each move contains a resource_id that you can pass directly to .get to retrieve the details of that move.

p.get('/api/v1/pokemon/bulbasaur')
// ...

Convenience Methods

All valid resource argumets to .get also have convenience methods:

p.pokemon([33, 'snorlax', 209])
p.ability(56)
p.egg(2)
p.pokedex()
 
// etc...

The full list of api resources can obtained from the api via .api

p.api()

License

MIT © Stephan Tabor