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PokéAPI

The Pokémon dataset every tutorial is built on.

🎮 GamesHEALTHYchecked 2h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✗

PokéAPI serves the full Pokémon universe — species, moves, types, sprites — as deeply linked JSON. It is the most-taught API on the internet and holds up under that traffic remarkably well. Fully static-cached, so latency is excellent worldwide.

100HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 100 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
61P50 · ms
2193P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 13 ms, slowest 1134 ms, most recent 114 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/pikachu

{
  "id": 25,
  "name": "pikachu",
  "height": 4,
  "weight": 60,
  "types": [
    {
      "slot": 1,
      "type": {
        "name": "electric"
      }
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/pikachu"
const res = await fetch("https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/pikachu");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/pikachu")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /pokemon/pikachu61 mschecked 2h ago
GET/pokemon/pikachuPROBED

Full Pokémon record — stats, types, sprites and evolution chain link.

GET/pokemon?limit=20&offset=0

Paginated list of all Pokémon resource URLs.

GET/type/fire

Type metadata and the Pokémon that share it.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

PokéAPI: common questions

Is PokéAPI free to use?

Yes — PokéAPI is a free games API. Free tier: Unlimited (be reasonable). The free tier is for non-commercial use.

Does PokéAPI need an API key?

No — PokéAPI needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (None — locally cache please).

Can I call PokéAPI from the browser?

Yes — PokéAPI returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is PokéAPI up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, PokéAPI is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 61 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.