PyPokéClient

Synchronous and asynchronous clients to fetch data from PokéAPI.

📌 Features

• Coverage: all PokéAPI endpoints are covered.
• Data validation: uses Pydantic dataclasses for the API implementation.
• Flexibility: can choose between synchronous and asynchronous clients.
• Caching: can employ a local cache system for faster responses and to respect PokéAPI Fair Use policy.

Please have a look at the documentation for more details about the package.

📦 Installation

# It is highly recommended to use uv
uv add pypokeclient

# But you can also install the package via pip
pip install pypokeclient

🛠️ How to use

You can choose whether to use the synchronous client

from pypokeclient import Client

# Simple usage
client = Client()
pokemon = client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")

# Or with context manager
with Client() as client:
  pokemon = client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")

or the asynchronous one

import asyncio

from pypokeclient import AsyncClient


async def fetch_data():
  # Simple usage
  client = AsyncClient()
  pokemon = await client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")

  # With context manager
  async with AsyncClient() as client:
    pokemon = await client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")

asyncio.run(fetch_data())

💾 Caching the results

[!IMPORTANT] Please refer to the hishel documentation for more details about the caching system.

import logging

from hishel import SyncSqliteStorage
from hishel.httpx import SyncCacheClient
from pypokeclient import Client

# Set up the logger
logger = logging.getLogger("pypokeclient")
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
console_handler = logging.StreamHandler()
console_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s"))
logger.addHandler(console_handler)

# Set up the underlying HTTP client
http_client = SyncCacheClient(
    storage=SyncSqliteStorage(database_path="pypokeclient_cache.db")
)

# Fetch data
with Client(http_client) as sync_client:
    pokemon = sync_client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")
    pokemon = sync_client.get_pokemon("fuecoco")

    # The sprites are cached too
    sprite = sync_client.get_sprite(pokemon.sprites.front_default)
    sprite = sync_client.get_sprite(pokemon.sprites.front_default)

    # You can also save the sprites locally if needed
    sprite.save("fuecoco.png")

The output will be the following

pypokeclient - INFO - The synchronous client is ready and using the cache at .cache\hishel\pypokeclient_cache.db'.
pypokeclient - INFO - [200] Request to https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/fuecoco.
pypokeclient - INFO - [200] Cached request to https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/fuecoco.
pypokeclient - INFO - [200] Request to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/909.png.
pypokeclient - INFO - [200] Cached request to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/909.png.
pypokeclient - INFO - Closed session for the synchronous client.

📝 License

This project is MIT licensed.