pokeascii

A little python and bash script that takes as input a pokemon name and returns its sprite. With the -R flag it returns a random pokemon from any generation. Greatly inspired by rmccorm4's Pokefetch project. Thank you for the idea. Needs TheZoraiz 's ascii-image-converter in order to work.

Requirements

As listed in the Requirements.txt file:

• Install TheZoraiz's ascii-image-converter

As explained in their repository's Installation section

• Beautiful Soup

pip install BeautifulSoup

• pypokedex Awesome project by arnavb

pip install pypokedex

• Requests

pip install Requests

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/belligerentcrow/pokeascii.git

2. cd into the repository

cd  ./pokeascii

Use

By Pokemon name

run the .sh file with the name of a pokemon u want the ascii of with its name as a parameter

./pokesh.sh <NAME>

Random

run the .sh file with the -R flag

./pokesh.sh -R

In any case, the script will download the png of the chosen pokemon in the ./output/imgs/ folder, and log the name of the pokemon you've searched in the ./output/log.txt file.

At this point in time, i haven't yet implemented a good error catcher in case of misspells or any of the sort. The output is getting logged. u can just delete it and the images if you dont want extra space on your machine for now.