TCGP fetch data

[miguelfs]

Hi, I wonder if there is an easy way of fetching data from the +- 250 cards from new TCGP mobile game.

Since it is a small set, would be useful to have a quick way of getting them in a single query/endpoint/file.

[Xernisfy]

That would be great! Are there any plans on cataloguing the Genetic Apex set?

[Toukassay]

Seems like a lot could be fetch here maybe : https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Genetic_Apex_(TCG_Pocket)

[miguelfs]

@Toukassay thanks! it seems all necessary data is there.

There are some libs to fetch data from Bulbapedia, but I don't think they are "tcg-oriented": https://github.com/search?q=bulbapedia&type=repositories

I could spend some hours making a tool to access the available metadata, I'll let you know about updates.
https://github.com/miguelfs/pkmn_tcgp_bulba

[Toukassay]

@Toukassay thanks! it seems all necessary data is there.

There are some libs to fetch data from Bulbapedia, but I don't think they are "tcg-oriented": https://github.com/search?q=bulbapedia&type=repositories

I could spend some hours making a tool to access the available metadata, I'll let you know about updates. https://github.com/miguelfs/pkmn_tcgp_bulba

Haven't tried it but in case you missed it : https://github.com/TomasSindermanMuszkat/Bulbapedia-Parser

[Xernisfy]

Hope this helps, feel free to let me know if I can improve it.

[Toukassay]

Hope this helps, feel free to let me know if I can improve it.

Wow, quite impressive dude ;)
I'm not used to this repo, how does they handle the images then? I see that all yours are default one I think?

[Xernisfy]

Thanks, always happy to help!
I'm not sure about the images, also new here 👋
They're probably just laying around on the server where the API is hosted.
In the images object I just followed the scheme from all the other ones 😅
Someone let me know where to put them and I can give them a zip with all the pngs.

Here's the scraping tool I build for this: https://github.com/Xernisfy/pokemon-tcg-importer

[Toukassay]

Thanks, always happy to help! I'm not sure about the images, also new here 👋 They're probably just laying around on the server where the API is hosted. In the images object I just followed the scheme from all the other ones 😅 Someone let me know where to put them and I can give them a zip with all the pngs.

Here's the scraping tool I build for this: https://github.com/Xernisfy/pokemon-tcg-importer

So cool, I didn't know there was an API, I was trying to scrape the DOM :D
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/api.php

[Xernisfy]

Me too, I stumbled over this when googling for a neater solution: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Get_the_contents_of_a_page#Example_2

[miguelfs]

@Xernisfy @Toukassay is there any project you 2 would be interested in building? Like an exploratory analysis?

[Toukassay]

I might try to build something for players to help them sharing friend's codes and exchanging cards 😊

[Xernisfy]

I was thinking about a deck-building helper.
That's why I needed an API to fetch the cards in the first place 😉
Not sure about the specifics though...

Data analysis sounds fun!
Got something in mind? Like how likely cards are going to win?

[itsjavi]

I am looking forward for this. I would like to integrate a TCGP card dex tracker on the PokePC project at some point.

Btw the link to your Discord server seems invalid https://discord.com/invite/dpsTCvg

[itsjavi]

@Nicolas-PredictaLab their last commit here is from last week, so it seems maintained.

[Toukassay]

@Nicolas-PredictaLab their last commit here is from last week, so it seems maintained.

Oh yeah my bad, was assuming he push new release each time. You are right.
🤞

[seondal]

I think TCGP should create a new API that is different from existing TCG systems.