PokeLance

A flexible, statically typed and easy to use pokeapi wrapper for python 🚀

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Features:

• Modern and pythonic API asynchronously built on top of aiohttp
• Flexible and easy to use
• Statically typed with mypy
• Linted with ruff
• Well documented
• Optimized for speed and performance
• Automatically caches data for faster access
• Caches endpoints for user convenience

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Installation

Bash

$ python -m pip install PokeLance

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Usage

Python

import asyncio

from pokelance import PokeLance

client = PokeLance()  # Create a client instance


async def main() -> None:
    print(await client.ping())  # Ping the pokeapi
    print(await client.berry.fetch_berry("cheri"))  # Fetch a berry from the pokeapi
    print(await client.berry.fetch_berry_flavor("spicy"))
    print(await client.berry.fetch_berry_firmness("very-soft"))
    print(client.berry.get_berry("cheri"))  # Get a cached berry it will return None if it doesn't exist
    print(client.berry.get_berry_flavor("spicy"))
    print(client.berry.get_berry_firmness("very-soft"))
    await client.close()  # Close the client
    return None


asyncio.run(main())

With Async Context Manager

Python

import asyncio

import aiohttp
from pokelance import PokeLance


async def main() -> None:
    # Use an async context manager to create a client instance
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session, PokeLance(session=session) as client:
        print(await client.ping())  # Ping the pokeapi
        print(await client.berry.fetch_berry("cheri"))  # Fetch a berry from the pokeapi
        print(await client.berry.fetch_berry_flavor("spicy"))
        print(await client.berry.fetch_berry_firmness("very-soft"))
        print(client.berry.get_berry("cheri"))  # Get a cached berry it will return None if it doesn't exist
        print(client.berry.get_berry_flavor("spicy"))
        print(client.berry.get_berry_firmness("very-soft"))
        # The client will be closed automatically when the async context manager exits
    return None

asyncio.run(main())

Examples

Examples

Following examples are available open an issue if you want more examples or more details on certain examples.

• Basic Usage
• Advanced cache usage
• Discord bot example
• FastAPI example

Important Links

• PokeAPI
• PokeAPI Documentation
• PokeLance Documentation
• PokeLance ReadTheDocs
• PokeLance GitHub
• PokeLance PyPI
• PokeLance Discord

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Note

This is a work in progress. If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, please open an issue here.

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