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OpenPokeTCG

A while back I wanted to make a little tool that would track the prices of Pokemon cards that I wanted on eBay. I had assumed that there would be easily accessible card data to build this on top of, but I found that the only cards with good API coverage were the English ones.

I decided to try and get this data myself, with the philosophy of making it completely open source, creating a public API for quick use, but also the service to create the database from scratch.

Frustratingly, information on cards is scattered and often sites jealously guard the data they've gathered. So I'm taking the approach of using wikis - complying with their robots.txt rules - and turning them into data available to everyone.

The project is just at the start of its journey, watch this space!