pokego

Go version of phoney badger's pokemon-colorscripts , with a boost on speed

Table of contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
  • Examples
• Credits
• Similar projects

Features

• Includes Pokémon from all generations, along with shiny, mega, Gigantamax, and regional variants
• Ability to print random Pokémon with options to filter by generation and form
• Print specific Pokémon by name
• Display both the sprite and Pokédex entry

Installation

Arch

If you're on Arch, you can also use the AUR:

yay -S pokego-bin

Or alternatively you can manually download the PKGBUILD file from the repository, then run

makepkg -si

For other Linux Distributions

Download the latest release. Unzip the executable

Then move the executable to your path

mv builds/linux/pokego ~/.local/bin

Git

You can also clone the repository and compile manually by doing:

git clone https://github.com/rubiin/pokego.git
cd pokego
just build

Then move the executable to your path

mv builds/linux/pokego ~/.local/bin

There is also the development package pokego-git that tracks the main branch.

Usage

Run the help command pokego --help to see the following help message.

USAGE:  -form string
        Show an alternate form of a pokemon
  -list
        Print list of all pokemon
  -name string
        Select pokemon by name
  -no-title
        Do not display pokemon name
  -random string
        Show a random pokemon. This flag can optionally be followed by a generation number or range (default "1-8")
  -shiny
        Show the shiny version of the pokemon instead
  -version
        Show the cli version

To get the help of the random subcommand.

Examples

Print a specific pokemon

pokego --name charizard

Print a specific shiny pokemon

pokego --name spheal -s

Print a specific pokemon together with its pokedex entry

pokego --name mudkip

Print an alternative form of a pokemon

pokego --name blastoise --form mega

Print a random pokemon (gens 1-8)

pokego

Print random pokemon from generations 1-3 (range)

pokego --random 1-3

Print a random pokemon from generations 1,3 and 6

pokego --random 1,3,6

Comparision

The start time is the mean of 5 consecutive run using time coreutil on my personal laptop[Acer Aspire 5] on 2024/10/06

Tool	Start Time (S)	Size (MB)	Language Used
Pokego	0.005	2.1 MB	Go
Pokeget	0.006	5 MB	Rust
Krabby	0.016	23 MB	Rust
Pokemonscripts	0.060	43 MB	Python

Credits

Pokego's Pokémon sprites were sourced from PokéSprite and transformed into Unicode format using Phoney Badger's pokemon-generator-scripts.

Similar projects

• pokemon-colorscripts
• pokeget
• pokeshell
• krabby