kingler

Kingler is an enhanced version of Krabby krabby that is mostly a Rust rewrite of phoney badger's pokemon-colorscripts with some extra features.

Table of contents

• Features of Kingler

• Installation

  • Arch Linux x86_64 (and derivatives)
  • Ubuntu/Debian x86_64 (and derivatives)
  • Installing from source (other distros and MacOS/Windows)

• Usage

  • Examples

• Configuration

• Credits

• Similar projects

Features of Kingler

• Pokemon from every generation, including shinies, megas, gigantamax, and regional variants

• Print random pokemon (with filters for generations and different forms)

• Print pokemon by name

• Print pokedex entry together with the sprite

• "Catch" the shiny and display your collection

• Show pokedex progression

• Configuration file, for language, shiny rate and shiny hunting JSON

• The text of the pokedex entry was moved. With the right flag you can choose if you want it under the pokemon or alongside

• There are more pokedex description: every description of every games about that pokemon, you can choose the language and the game

• To make this program more pokedex-like it is added a command to see the stats

• It is added a script for scraping of the pokemon API so everyone can create a custom JSON

• Custom shell completions

Installation

Arch Linux x86_64 (and derivatives)

From the AUR using your favorite AUR helper

yay -S kingler-bin

Or alternatively you can manually download the PKGBUILD file from the repository, then run

makepkg -si

There is also the development package kingler-git that tracks the main branch.

Ubuntu/Debian x86_64 (and derivatives) ----TODO

Download the latest .deb release. Then run (replacing v.v.v with the version number)

dpkg -i kingler_v.v.v_amd64.deb

Homebrew ----TODO

Add the tap:

brew tap Luca-Barra/kingler

Install:

brew install kingler

Installing from source (other distros and MacOS/Windows)

To install kingler from source, you will need Rust. Installation instructions can be found here.

Now using cargo, run

cargo install kingler

Make sure you have .cargo/bin added to your shell PATH. This can be done by adding the following to your .profile, .bash_profile or .zprofile

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin"

Usage

Run the help command kingler help to see the following help message.

Usage: kingler <COMMAND>

Commands:
  list        Print a list of all Pokémon
  name        Select Pokémon by name. Generally spelled like in the games. A few exceptions are nidoran-f, nidoran-m, mr-mime, farfetchd, flabebe type-null etc. Perhaps grep the output of list if in doubt
  random      Show a random Pokémon. This command can optionally be followed by a generation number or range (1-9) to show random Pokémon from a specific generation or range of generations. The generations can be provided as a continuous range (e.g., 1-3) or as a list of generations (1,3,6)
  init        Generate shell completions
  show-shiny  Show shiny
  help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

To get more detailed information about a subcommand you can also view its help, for example

kingler help random

To get the help of the random subcommand.

Examples

Print a specific pokemon

kingler name charizard

Print a specific shiny pokemon

kingler name spheal -s

Print a specific pokemon together with a random pokedex entry

kingler name mudkip -i

Print a specific pokemon together with a specific pokedex entry

kingler name mudkip -i --game-info=ruby

Print an alternative form of a pokemon

kingler name blastoise -f mega

Print a random pokemon (gens 1-9)

kingler random

Print random pokemon from generations 1-3

kingler random 1-3

Print a random pokemon from generations 1,3 and 6

kingler random 1,3,6

Print a random pokemon excluding megas, gigantamax and regional variants

kingler random --no-mega --no-gmax --no-regional

Print a random pokemon with his stats

kingler random --stats

Print a random pokemon with stats and info under

kingler random -iu --stats

Print the list of shiny pokemon "catch"

kingler show-shiny

Configuration

When the program is run, a TOML config file will automatically be created in the user's config directory (usually ~/.config) under kingler/config.toml if it doesn't exist already.

On MacOS the config will be in: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/kingler On Windows this will be: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\kingler

# The language to use when printing the pokemon's name and/or description.
# Possible options include en (English), fr (French), de (German), ja (Japanese),
# ko (Korean), es (Espanol), it (Italian), ja-Hrkt (Japanese Hiragana) 
# zh_hans (Chinese with simplified characters), zh_hant (Chinese with traditional characters)
language = 'en'

# The probability to show a shiny pokemon when using the random command
shiny_rate = 0.0078125

Credits

The pokemon sprites for kingler were generated using sprites from PokéSprite and converted to unicode using Phoney Badger's pokemon-generator-scripts. The code that got me started is from yannjor's krabby The pokemon data was obtained from PokéAPI.

Similar projects

• pokemon-colorscripts
• krabby
• pokeget
• pokeshell