pokemon-info — a terminal Pokédex powered by PokeAPI

[pkong-ds]

Hi PokeAPI Community!!

I built pokemon-info - a TUI Pokédex for browsing every Pokémon and move. All data comes from PokeAPI.

$ pokemon-info                 # interactive TUI
$ pokemon-info pikachu          # one-shot CLI lookup
$ pokemon-info moves thunderbolt

Details are fetched live from PokeAPI, cached on disk for 30 days, and rate-limited client-side (~5 req/s sustained) so browsing stays polite to the server.

English names, slugs, and unique prefixes all resolve ("zek" → Zekrom, "mr-mime" works too). Install via Homebrew, Scoop, Snap, or a curl one-liner — see the README.

Credits:

• poketex by ckaznable — this TUI's browsing experience is inspired by it, and it's the tree the gen 9 art came from
• pokemon-colorscripts by phoneybadber — the embedded ANSI Pokémon art (gen 1–8)
• Caruban's gen 9 resource pack — gen 9 art (bundled via poketex #58)

Huge thanks to the PokeAPI team. This project literally doesn't exist without you. Feedback and feature ideas welcome!

[phalt]

Great project, love this!