PokéAPI Encounters API
Encounter methods, conditions, and condition values used in the wild.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Poké Berries Encounters API
description: PokéAPI v2 is a free, open-source RESTful API serving comprehensive Pokémon data — species, abilities, moves, items, types, locations, evolution chains, encounters, berries, contests, games, and machines. All endpoints are GET-only and require no authentication. Please cache resources locally; rate limits were removed in 2018 but persistent abusers may be IP-banned.
version: '2'
contact:
name: PokéAPI Maintainers
url: https://pokeapi.co
license:
name: BSD-3-Clause
url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/blob/master/LICENSE.md
servers:
- url: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2
description: PokéAPI v2 production base URL
tags:
- name: Encounters
description: Encounter methods, conditions, and condition values used in the wild.
paths:
/encounter-method:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: List Encounter Methods
description: List all encounter methods.
operationId: listEncounterMethods
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
responses:
'200':
description: A paginated list of encounter method resources.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResourceList'
/encounter-method/{id}:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: Get Encounter Method
description: Retrieve a single encounter method by id or name.
operationId: getEncounterMethod
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdOrName'
responses:
'200':
description: A single encounter method resource.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EncounterMethod'
/encounter-condition:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: List Encounter Conditions
description: List all encounter conditions.
operationId: listEncounterConditions
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
responses:
'200':
description: A paginated list of encounter condition resources.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResourceList'
/encounter-condition/{id}:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: Get Encounter Condition
description: Retrieve a single encounter condition by id or name.
operationId: getEncounterCondition
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdOrName'
responses:
'200':
description: A single encounter condition resource.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EncounterCondition'
/encounter-condition-value:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: List Encounter Condition Values
description: List all encounter condition values.
operationId: listEncounterConditionValues
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
responses:
'200':
description: A paginated list of encounter condition value resources.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResourceList'
/encounter-condition-value/{id}:
get:
tags:
- Encounters
summary: Get Encounter Condition Value
description: Retrieve a single encounter condition value by id or name.
operationId: getEncounterConditionValue
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/IdOrName'
responses:
'200':
description: A single encounter condition value resource.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EncounterConditionValue'
components:
schemas:
NamedAPIResource:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: Slug name of the referenced resource.
url:
type: string
format: uri
description: Canonical URL of the referenced resource.
EncounterCondition:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
names:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
values:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResource'
Name:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
language:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResource'
NamedAPIResourceList:
type: object
properties:
count:
type: integer
next:
type: string
nullable: true
format: uri
previous:
type: string
nullable: true
format: uri
results:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResource'
EncounterMethod:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
order:
type: integer
names:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
EncounterConditionValue:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
condition:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedAPIResource'
names:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Name'
parameters:
IdOrName:
name: id
in: path
required: true
description: Resource id (integer) or name (slug).
schema:
type: string
Offset:
name: offset
in: query
required: false
description: Number of items to skip before starting to collect the result set.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 0
default: 0
Limit:
name: limit
in: query
required: false
description: Number of items to return per page.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
maximum: 100000
default: 20