pkmn.li: Pokémon sprites in your terminal

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I converted all Pokémon sprites to ANSI, so you can view them in you terminal (or browser).

Get a random Pokémon in your terminal

curl pkmn.li

You can also view it in the browser: pkmn.li

You will need true color support in your terminal.

Get a random Pokémon in your terminal
Get a specific Pokémon
- Get a random Pokémon from a specific generation
  - gen1
  - gen2
  - gen3
  - gen4
  - gen5
  - gen6
  - gen7
  - icons
Other languages
- The following languages are available
Data
Creating ANSI from the sprites

Other languages

If you want to have the names and flavor text in another language you can use the lang parameter.

curl pkmn.li/?lang=de
curl pkmn.li/25/?lang=es

The following languages are available

ja-Hrkt
roomaji
ko
zh-Hant
fr
de
es
it
en
cs
ja
zh-Hans
pt-BR

I am using the PokeAPI sprites for the images and the PokeAPI api-data for the flavor text (Pokédex entries). I am generating all Pokémon from the static data in the repositories. I am not actually using the PokeAPI.

Creating ANSI from the sprites

To create the ANSI from the sprites I am using the Rust program viu. Generating html from ANSI is actually rather difficult. Unlike with aare.li, where I am using ansi-escape-to-html directly in the PHP script, this doesn't work with the Pokémon sprites as they are true color (24 million colors). I haven't found a php package that supports true color ANSI. But the Python package ansi2html does, so I am using that.

glow.li: 2023

pkmn.li: Pokémon sprites in your terminal