PokeApi

A light-weight promise-based REST client for accessing pokeapi.co, usable from node.js or in the browser (through the magic of browserify).

Usage

var PokeApi = require('pokeapi');
var api = PokeApi.v1();

api.get('pokemon', 1).then(function(bulbasaur) {
    console.log("Here's Bulbasaur:", bulbasaur);
	api.get(bulbasaur.moves).then(function(moves) {
	    console.log("Full move list:" + moves);
    })
}, function(err) {
    console.log('ERROR', err);
});

Fetching a resource by ID

Resources can be fetched by supplying the resource name and the ID of the resource.

// returns a promise for a single object
api.get('pokemon', 1)
// the ID can also be a string
api.get('pokemon', '1')

// returns a promise for an array of objects
api.get('pokemon', '1,2,3,7-9')

Fetching a resource by resource_uri

You can also get resources by supplying an object with a resource_uri property, or an array of such objects:

// returns a promise for a single object
api.get({ resource_uri: '/api/v1/pokemon/1/' })

// returns a promise for an array of objects
api.get([ 
    { resource_uri: '/api/v1/pokemon/1/' }, 
    { resource_uri: '/api/v1/pokemon/2/' }
]);

This is particularly useful since all references to other objects will have this format, making it possible to do things like:

api.get('pokemon', 1).then(function(bulbasaur) {
    console.log("Here's Bulbasaur:", bulbasaur);
	api.get(bulbasaur.moves).then(function(moves) {
	    console.log("Full move list:" + moves);
    })
});

Local client

You can run PokeApi in 'offline' mode, where data is read from locally stored data files rather than fetched from pokeapi.co on every request. This makes sense in cases when you're working with smaller sets of data that you don't expect to change a whole lot, i.e. move types. It's also very useful for working with data inside the browser without having to bother with setting up an AJAX proxy.

The data objects should have the same format as the output from api.get() (the CLI command is a good way to export the data). You can specify muliple data files.

// assuming that types.json and moves.json exists
var types = require('./types');
var moves = require('./moves');

// creating a local client that can be queried for type and move data
var api = PokeApi.local(types, moves).v1();

Command-line Interface

PokeApi includes a simple CLI:

> npm install -g pokeapi
...

> pokeapi get type 1
{"created":"2013-11-02T12:08:58.787000","id":1,"ineffective":[{"name":"rock","resource_uri":"/api/v1/type/6/"},{"name":"steel","resource_uri":"/api/v1/type/9/"}],"modified":"

Running PokeApi in the browser

PokeApi can be run in the client using browserify. In order to query the pokeapi.co server you proably need to set up an AJAX proxy on your own. If you are running express this is pretty straightforward:

var express = require('express');
var request = require('request');

var app = express();

app.get('/api/*', function(req, res) {
    request('http://pokeapi.co' + req.path).pipe(res);
});

When setting up the client you then need to tell it to connect to your own server instead of pokeapi.co:

var api = PokeApi.host('http://myhost').v1()