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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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
    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/capabilities/pokemon-research.yaml
    type: NaftikoCapability
    title: Pokémon Research
  - url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pokeapi/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/pokeapi-vocabulary.yaml
    type: Vocabulary
    title: PokéAPI Vocabulary