Mega - Pokemon || Shadow - Pokemon

[Flame101]

Hi I was wondering how do I get mega pokemon's info like a mega venusaur and like shadow pokemon is there anyway to get this info?

[Naramsim]

Yes, the correct way would be:

1. GET https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon-species/3
2. extract the varieties and filter using common keywords such as mega or gmax
3. GET the url.

For example for Venusaur Mega -> https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/10033/

[Naramsim]

I'm not sure we have shadow variants though

[Flame101]

hi thx, just got really bumbed out when I saw u guys have a limit of 300 requests per day which won't be suffient for a discord bot I am making, if the bot gets in more servers and deals with like 1000 reuests per endpoint the rate limit won't do

[Naramsim]

Where did you see we have a limit of 300 requests per day? We had a rate limit years ago, but now we are at full blast (100 000 000 reqs/month). No rate limit at all.

If the API also is too slow, you can always spin up your PokeAPI server. We provide Compose/K8s/JSON resources.

[skelgaard]

I'm not sure we have shadow variants though

still can't see that there is any shadow info in the api... has it still not been added ?