This script is inspired by this project, but since the output heavily depends on the font of your terminal, i decided to make a script that shows a true PNG image of the Pokémon (of course, this script requires a terminal that supports images).

Important: this program relies on viuer, so check if your terminal is supported first.

To use the script, you must first have all the these installed:

• a supported terminal
• Python 3.8.x
• numpy (Python library)
• aiohttp (Python library)

Note that the binary is already present inside bin/pokemon-icat, but if you need to compile the program, simply run:

sh compile.sh

(note that this script requires cargo).

After making sure that you have all of the requirements, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/aflaag/pokemon-icat && cd pokemon-icat && sh install.sh

which should start the installation process of the script, by downloading every picture of every Pokémon.

By default, this will download every Pokémon with an upscaling factor of the original image of 3, but if you want to change this behaviour run the last command with the option --upscale <FACTOR>, for example:

sh install.sh -u 15

To show a random pokemon, simply run:

pokemon-icat

If you want to specify one or more generations in particular, simply add --generations <GENERATIONS> at the end, for example (note: the generations must be comma-separated, and trailing commas are not supported):

pokemon-icat -g 3,4,Hisui,5

If you want to show a pokemon in particular, just use the --pokemon <POKEMON> flag, for example:

pokemon-icat -p charizard

and if you want to suppress the Pokémon info, use the --quiet flag:

pokemon-icat -p charizard -q

To check all the available options, use the --help option.

• last DLC pokemons don't get downloaded (change the csv when this is fixed)
• Image 10186.png doesn't get downloaded

• AUR package (very requested)
• Nix package
• rename the other images to include every available sprite
  • do they contain regional forms?
• shinies every once in a while