PokéAPI

aid: pokeapi
name: PokéAPI
description: >-
  PokéAPI (pokeapi.co) is a free, open-source RESTful and GraphQL API serving comprehensive Pokémon data — including
  Pokémon species, abilities, moves, items, types, locations, evolution chains, encounters, berries, contests, games,
  and machines. Built as an educational tool licensed under BSD-3-Clause, it is community-funded via Open Collective and
  GitHub Sponsors, requires no authentication, and is hosted with a fair-use policy encouraging clients to cache
  responses locally. The API powers tutorials, fan apps, machine-learning experiments, and game tooling worldwide and
  consistently serves one billion-plus requests per month.
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Pokémon
- Open Source
- Open Data
- REST
- GraphQL
- Gaming
- Educational
- Community
created: '2026-05-30'
modified: '2026-05-30'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pokeapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: pokeapi:pokeapi-rest
  name: PokéAPI REST API v2
  description: >-
    The PokéAPI v2 REST API exposes the canonical Pokémon dataset across 12 resource families and roughly 60 endpoints
    — Pokémon, Pokémon Species, Abilities, Moves, Types, Items, Berries, Locations, Evolution Chains, Encounters,
    Games (Generations / Pokédex / Versions / Version Groups), Contests, Machines, and Utility (Languages). Every
    endpoint is GET-only, returns JSON, and is reachable under https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/ without authentication.
  humanURL: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2
  tags:
  - Pokémon
  - REST
  - Open Data
  - Educational
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pokeapi/refs/heads/main/openapi/pokeapi-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2#fairuse
    type: TermsOfService
    title: Fair Use Policy
  - url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pokeapi-js-wrapper
    type: SDK
    title: JavaScript Wrapper (pokeapi-js-wrapper)
  - url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pokedex-promise-v2
    type: SDK
    title: Node.js Client (pokedex-promise-v2)
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/pokebase/
    type: SDK
    title: Python Wrapper (pokebase)
  - url: https://pypi.org/project/pokepy/
    type: SDK
    title: Python Wrapper (pokepy)
  - url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokekotlin
    type: SDK
    title: Kotlin Multiplatform Client (pokekotlin)
  baseURL: https://pokeapi.co/api/v2
- aid: pokeapi:pokeapi-graphql
  name: PokéAPI GraphQL API (Beta)
  description: >-
    The PokéAPI GraphQL beta exposes the same Pokémon dataset as the REST API through a single endpoint with
    field-level selection, joins, and filtering. It is well suited to clients that want to cherry-pick fields across
    Pokémon, species, moves, and abilities in a single round trip.
  humanURL: https://pokeapi.co/docs/graphql
  tags:
  - Pokémon
  - GraphQL
  - Open Data
  - Beta
  properties:
  - url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/graphql
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/console/
    type: GettingStarted
    title: GraphQL Console
  - url: https://beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/v1beta
    type: Endpoint
    title: GraphQL Endpoint
  - url: graphql/pokeapi-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  baseURL: https://beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/v1beta
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- url: https://pokeapi.co
  type: Portal
- url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI
  type: GitHubOrganization
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi
  type: GitHubRepository
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/blob/master/LICENSE.md
  type: License
  title: BSD-3-Clause
- url: https://opencollective.com/pokeapi
  type: Pricing
  title: Open Collective (Donations)
- url: https://github.com/sponsors/PokeAPI
  type: Pricing
  title: GitHub Sponsors
- url: https://pokeapi.co/about
  type: About
- url: https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2#fairuse
  type: TermsOfService
  title: Fair Use Policy
- url: https://pokeapi.slack.com
  type: Support
  title: Slack Community
- url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pokeapi
  type: StackOverflow
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/issues
  type: IssueTracker
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/pokeapi/releases
  type: ChangeLog
- url: https://hub.docker.com/r/pokeapi/pokeapi
  type: SDK
  title: Docker Image
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites
  type: SDK
  title: Pokémon Sprites (Static Assets)
- url: https://github.com/PokeAPI/api-data
  type: SDK
  title: Static API Data Dump + JSON Schema
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: No Authentication
    description: All endpoints are publicly accessible without API keys, tokens, or signup.
  - name: REST and GraphQL Interfaces
    description: Choose REST under /api/v2 or GraphQL at beta.pokeapi.co/graphql/v1beta — same dataset, two access patterns.
  - name: Comprehensive Pokémon Dataset
    description: >-
      Roughly 60 endpoints covering Pokémon, species, moves, abilities, items, berries, types, locations,
      encounters, evolution chains, contests, games, and machines.
  - name: Multi-Generation Coverage
    description: >-
      Data spans every released generation of Pokémon games with version-specific and version-group-specific
      resource variants.
  - name: Multi-Language Localization
    description: >-
      Names, flavor text, and descriptions are returned in multiple languages selectable via the Language utility
      resource.
  - name: Cacheable Resources
    description: >-
      Resources are immutable game data — responses are highly cacheable, and the fair-use policy actively
      encourages clients to cache locally.
  - name: Pokémon Sprites Library
    description: >-
      Companion sprites repo (PokeAPI/sprites) provides every official artwork, sprite, and shiny variant referenced
      by the REST responses.
  - name: Static Data Dump
    description: PokeAPI/api-data publishes a static JSON snapshot of every resource for offline / build-time use cases.
  - name: Self-Hostable
    description: Docker image, Kubernetes Kustomize manifests, and Firebase deployment scripts let teams run a private mirror.
  - name: Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
    description: Source code, sprites, GraphQL schema, and client wrappers are open source.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Pokédex Apps
    description: Build mobile, web, or desktop Pokédex applications that render species, abilities, moves, and sprites.
  - name: Team Builders and Battle Simulators
    description: >-
      Power competitive team-builder, damage-calculator, and battle-simulator tools with type matchups, base stats,
      and movesets.
  - name: Educational Coding Tutorials
    description: PokéAPI is widely used in tutorials teaching REST, GraphQL, caching, pagination, and client-side data binding.
  - name: Machine Learning Datasets
    description: >-
      Researchers use the static dataset to train and benchmark recommendation, embedding, and image-classification
      models on Pokémon entities.
  - name: AI Assistant Demos
    description: >-
      A favorite first example for MCP servers, agent demos, and tool-use tutorials — the data is rich,
      recognizable, and unauthenticated.
  - name: Fan Wikis and Trading Apps
    description: Provide reference data for fan-built wikis, trading marketplaces, and card-collection trackers.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: pokeapi-js-wrapper
    description: Browser-friendly async JavaScript wrapper with built-in cache.
  - name: pokedex-promise-v2
    description: Node.js / TypeScript promise-based client.
  - name: pokebase
    description: Python 3 wrapper covering all v2 endpoints.
  - name: pokepy
    description: Alternative Python wrapper for PokéAPI.
  - name: pokekotlin
    description: Kotlin Multiplatform client for PokéAPI.
  - name: PokeAPI Sprites
    description: Companion repo of sprite images served alongside REST responses.
  - name: Static API Data Dump
    description: GitHub-hosted JSON snapshot for offline / build-time consumption.
  - name: Model Context Protocol Servers
    description: >-
      Numerous community MCP servers wrap PokéAPI as agent tools (poke-mcp, pokeapi-mcp-server, MCP_Pokemon,
      pokedex-mcp, etc.).
- type: Tools
  data:
  - name: pokeapi-mcp-server (npm)
    description: Community MCP server (Asthanaji05) exposing roughly 47 PokéAPI endpoints as MCP tools.
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pokeapi-mcp-server
  - name: poke-mcp (NaveenBandarage)
    description: >-
      Reference MCP server connecting Claude Desktop, Continue, Cline, and other clients to PokéAPI via SSE
      transport.
    url: https://github.com/naveenbandarage/poke-mcp
  - name: poke-mcp (ChiragAgg5k)
    description: MCP server exposing stats, types, abilities, moves, and evolution chains as tools.
    url: https://github.com/chiragagg5k/poke-mcp
  - name: pokedex-mcp (hollanddd)
    description: MCP server exposing Pokémon data, type-effectiveness charts, and encounter locations.
    url: https://github.com/hollanddd/pokedex-mcp
  - name: Pokemon-MCP-Server (Sachin-crypto)
    description: MCP server exposing list-popular-Pokémon and tournament-squad-builder tools.
    url: https://github.com/Sachin-crypto/Pokemon-MCP-Server
  - name: pokemon-mcp-server (indroneelray)
    description: MCP server fetching Pokémon data via the official API.
    url: https://github.com/indroneelray/pokemon-mcp-server
  - name: poke-mcp (kaishin)
    description: Swift MCP wrapper around PokéAPI.
    url: https://github.com/kaishin/poke-mcp
  - name: poke_api_mcp_rb (katakyo)
    description: Ruby MCP server built on mcp_rb for retrieving Pokémon information.
    url: https://github.com/katakyo/poke_api_mcp_rb
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pokeapi/refs/heads/main/rules/pokeapi-rules.yml
  type: SpectralRules
  title: PokéAPI Spectral Rules
- url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pokeapi/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/pokeapi-vocabulary.yaml
  type: Vocabulary
  title: PokéAPI Vocabulary