Wrote this while bored, figured I’d toss it out there for anyone who cares. Gives you a different Pokemon, and its Pokedex entry, each day. The specific Pokemon is randomly chosen, with the current date as the seed value.
There are probably ways to make it better, but I’m heavily constrained by the JSON that I’m retrieving from pokeapi.co on this one and I don’t feel like putting in the effort.
# Pokémon of the Day Python script
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import json, random, requests, time
# get the date as an integer, which we will use as the RNG seed;
# that way, it's a new pokémon each day and only each day, but
# we're not just modulus-ing our way through the list
random.seed(time.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
pokeNum = random.randint(1, 898)
pokeJSON = json.loads(json.dumps(requests.get(f'https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon-species/{pokeNum}').json()))
def getPokemonTextAttribute(keytype, key):
pokeVersion = ""
latestVersion = ""
for i in range(0, 500): # there's no way to directly request a specific language from
# the JSON, so I have to use a for loop to iterate through the
# whole goddamn file
# additional handling code for flavor text because national dex
if keytype == "flavor_text_entries":
versions = ["sword", "ultra-sun", "omega-ruby"] # one of these three should have the
# flavor text in the JSON; searching
# for the most recent first
for j in range(0, 3):
value = versions[j]
for k in range(0, 500): # again, the API won't let me grab just a specific
# language, so I have to loop through the whole thing
try:
if value == pokeJSON["flavor_text_entries"][k]["version"]["name"]:
latestVersion = value
break
except IndexError: # if k exceeds the number of entries in the JSON,
# start over with the next game version
break
if latestVersion == value:
break
pokeVersion = pokeJSON["flavor_text_entries"][i]["version"]["name"]
pokeLang = pokeJSON[keytype][i]["language"]["name"]
if pokeVersion == latestVersion and pokeLang == "en" and keytype == "flavor_text_entries":
# we found the latest flavor text, and it's in english
break
elif pokeLang == "en" and keytype != "flavor_text_entries":
# we found the requested key, and it's in english
break
# we didn't find what we need, iterate the for loop again
return pokeJSON[keytype][i][key]
pokeName = getPokemonTextAttribute("names", "name")
pokeGenus = getPokemonTextAttribute("genera", "genus")
pokeDesc = getPokemonTextAttribute("flavor_text_entries", "flavor_text")
print("The Pokémon of the Day is...")
print()
print("#" + str(pokeNum) + ":", pokeName + ", the", pokeGenus)
print()
print(pokeDesc)
