Pokeapi: Access to a pokemon's pokedex description

[fmonniot]

Hi there !
First of all, thank you for this API!

I would want to know how I can get a pokemon description (as in the pokedex).
I have seen that data/v2/csv/pokemon_species_flavor_text.csv seems to have the data I look for but I can't find how to get _via_ the API.
Any idea ?

Thanks

[phalt]

@fmonniot have you tried the V1 API for this?

[fmonniot]

Well maybe I could (I haven't tried) but I would prefer not to use two
version of the API of I can.
I'm ready to open a PR if this is not currently implemented in V2 and if
needed

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 02:32 Paul Hallett [email protected] wrote:

@fmonniot https://github.com/fmonniot have you tried the V1 API for
this?

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[phalt]

@fmonniot Let me ask @zaneadix if this is something we've merged into the project but not shipped yet :)

I need to get myself a weekend free so I can ship some recents changes :)

[nimaje]

At data/v2/build.py line 1909 - 1918 the data goes in the db as PokemonSpeciesFlavorText.
I don't know if this is accessible trought the v2 api. I didn't find anything in the docs neighter online nor in the repo.

[zaneadix]

@phalt @fmonniot @nimaje So strange. I sincerely have no idea how I would have missed this. Working on implementing this right now.

[fmonniot]

@zaneadix No problem, I guess you are more interested in pokemon's statistics than in their description :)

[phalt]

Resolved in #111 - will let you know when it is shipped @fmonniot, then I can close this :)

[vihanggodbole]

Hey! Just a quick question - Any ETA on when will this be shipped?

[phalt]

@vihanggodbole my Sunday will be taken up mostly by shipping new things.

[vihanggodbole]

Since this is closed but I still can't find any description when I call the api on any pokemon, could you tell me how to access the description? Thanks!
Edit - Never mind, found it! To anyone else, it's in the pokemon species call. :)

[fleeting]

@vihanggodbole Thanks for that! I was also looking for the pokedex description with no luck until seeing your comment.

[zaneadix]

@fleeting @vihanggodbole You're looking for the flavor_text_entries param on the pokemon-species resource (NOT the pokemon resource). I'm seeing them pop up now thanks to @phalt 's work over the weekend :)

[fleeting]

Correct. I was looking everywhere else for it until @vihanggodbole's comment said it was in species. All good now.