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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#\tPok\u00e9mon of the Day Python script\n#\tCopyright 2021 Takel\n#\n#\tRedistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided\n#\tthat the following conditions are met:\n#\n#\t1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the\n#\tfollowing disclaimer.\n#\n#\t2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and\n#\tthe following disclaimer in the documentation and\/or other materials provided with the distribution.\n#\n#\tTHIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS \"AS IS\" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED\n#\tWARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A\n#\tPARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR\n#\tANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT\n#\tLIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS\n#\tINTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR\n#\tTORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF\n#\tADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.\n\nimport json, random, requests, time\n\n#\tget the date as an integer, which we will use as the RNG seed;\n#\tthat way, it's a new pok\u00e9mon each day and only each day, but\n#\twe're not just modulus-ing our way through the list\nrandom.seed(time.strftime('%Y%m%d'))\npokeNum = random.randint(1, 898)\n\npokeJSON = json.loads(json.dumps(requests.get(f'https:\/\/pokeapi.co\/api\/v2\/pokemon-species\/{pokeNum}').json()))\n\n\ndef getPokemonTextAttribute(keytype, key):\n pokeVersion = \"\"\n latestVersion = \"\"\n for i in range(0, 500):\t\t# there's no way to directly request a specific language from\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# the JSON, so I have to use a for loop to iterate through the\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# whole goddamn file\n\n # additional handling code for flavor text because national dex\n if keytype == \"flavor_text_entries\":\n versions = [\"sword\", \"ultra-sun\", \"omega-ruby\"]\t\t# one of these three should have the\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# flavor text in the JSON; searching\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# for the most recent first\n for j in range(0, 3):\n value = versions[j]\n for k in range(0, 500):\t\t# again, the API won't let me grab just a specific\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# language, so I have to loop through the whole thing\n try:\n if value == pokeJSON[\"flavor_text_entries\"][k][\"version\"][\"name\"]:\n latestVersion = value\n break\n except IndexError: # if k exceeds the number of entries in the JSON,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t# start over with the next game version\n break\n if latestVersion == value:\n break\n pokeVersion = pokeJSON[\"flavor_text_entries\"][i][\"version\"][\"name\"]\n\n pokeLang = pokeJSON[keytype][i][\"language\"][\"name\"]\n if pokeVersion == latestVersion and pokeLang == \"en\" and keytype == \"flavor_text_entries\":\n # we found the latest flavor text, and it's in english\n break\n elif pokeLang == \"en\" and keytype != \"flavor_text_entries\":\n # we found the requested key, and it's in english\n break\n\n # we didn't find what we need, iterate the for loop again\n\n return pokeJSON[keytype][i][key]\n\n\npokeName = getPokemonTextAttribute(\"names\", \"name\")\npokeGenus = getPokemonTextAttribute(\"genera\", \"genus\")\npokeDesc = getPokemonTextAttribute(\"flavor_text_entries\", \"flavor_text\")\n\nprint(\"The Pok\u00e9mon of the Day is...\")\nprint()\nprint(\"#\" + str(pokeNum) + \":\", pokeName + \", the\", pokeGenus)\nprint()\nprint(pokeDesc)\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrote this while bored, figured I’d toss it out there for anyone who cares. 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