TCGdex

Multilingual Pokémon TCG card data

🎮 GamesHEALTHYchecked 6h ago
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Open Pokémon TCG database with cards, sets and rarities in many languages. Keyless JSON search and lookup — cache responses in production.

94HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 94 · healthy
Uptime history
98.0%90 days
100%30 days
161P50 · ms
2128P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 78 ms, slowest 1303 ms, most recent 137 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.tcgdex.net/v2/en/cards?name=pikachu

[
  {
    "id": "basep-1",
    "localId": "1",
    "name": "Pikachu",
    "image": "https://assets.tcgdex.net/en/base/basep/1"
  },
  {
    "id": "fut2020-1",
    "localId": "1",
    "name": "Pikachu on the Ball",
    "image": "https://assets.tcgdex.net/en/swsh/fut2020/1"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.tcgdex.net/v2/en/cards?name=pikachu"
const res = await fetch("https://api.tcgdex.net/v2/en/cards?name=pikachu");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.tcgdex.net/v2/en/cards?name=pikachu")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /v2/en/cards?name=pikachu161 mschecked 6h ago
GET/v2/en/cards?name=pikachuPROBED

Multilingual Pokémon TCG card data

GET/v2

V2 — documented GET route.

GET/v2/1

V2 details by ID (example: 1).

GET/v2?limit=10

V2 — documented GET route.

GET/v2/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/v2/

V2 — documented GET route.

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.

TCGdex: common questions

Is TCGdex free to use?

Yes — TCGdex is a free games API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does TCGdex need an API key?

No — TCGdex needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call TCGdex from the browser?

Yes — TCGdex 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 TCGdex up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, TCGdex is healthy with 98.0% uptime over 90 days and a 161 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.