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Pokefetch

This is a script I'm working on to further my webscraping skills

Tools

Python 3

• Requests
• BeautifulSoup

Bash

• catimg

Serebii

• Currently rewriting my scraper to use Bulbapedia

Context

This script currently asks for the pokedex number of the pokemon you'd like to get information about, then it will get the picture and some related information such as type, abilities, weaknesses, etc.

I wanted to model the output to be similar to screenfetch and neofetch, two popular scripts to grab system information.

Setup

Starting steps:

Clone this repository to a directory of your choice in the command-line:

git clone https://github.com/rmccorm4/pokefetch

Make sure you have all of the necessary third-party libraries described below

Python requests module

pip install requests

Python BeautifulSoup module

pip install bs4

catimg

On Arch Linux:

yaourt -S catimg

Otherwise, follow the instructions here: https://github.com/posva/catimg

Disclaimers

The "Gender" category that gets printed out uses ascii symbols and may not print properly depending on your terminal configurations.

Personally, I use adobe-source-code-pro-fonts and I make sure that my terminal's default encoding is UTF-8

Running the script:

./pokefetch.sh <pokemon_name>

Example below.

Current progress

This is what I have so far:

However this requires a full-screen terminal in order to come out nicely.

To-do

• Make sure it works for every single pokemon, including difficult names such as "Mr. Mime" and "Ho-oh"
• Get higher quality images to output if possible, need to research this more
• Conversely, try to find more pixellated versions of the newer models in hopes of getting a prettier output
• Add a -shiny flag to output the shiny sprite instead of the regular one
• Scrape more relevant information about the pokemon
• Make script work for default size terminal as well as full-screen?
• Rewrite my scraping method to be much cleaner and more uniform
• Include Gen VII pokemon
• Implement old-school sprites because they come out much nicer as seen below
• Possibly add old school gifs from the special games like yellow and crystal