tap-pokemon

Singer tap for Pokémon.

Built with the Meltano SDK for Singer Taps and Targets.

🚧 Under development. Not all endpoints have been implemented. See API Coverage. 🚧

Capabilities

• catalog
• state
• discover
• about
• stream-maps
• schema-flattening

Settings

Setting	Required	Default	Description
base_url	False	https://pokeapi.co	The base URL of the Pokémon API.
stream_maps	False	None	Config object for stream maps capability.
stream_map_config	False	None	User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.
flattening_enabled	False	None	'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.
flattening_max_depth	False	None	The max depth to flatten schemas.

A full list of supported settings and capabilities is available by running: tap-pokemon --about

API Coverage

Stream	Endpoint
pokemon_species	/api/v2/pokemon-species

Usage

You can easily run tap-pokemon by itself or in a pipeline using Meltano.

Executing the Tap Directly

tap-pokemon --version
tap-pokemon --help
tap-pokemon --config CONFIG --discover > ./catalog.json

Developer Resources

Initialize your Development Environment

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh  # or follow https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/
uv sync

Create and Run Tests

Create tests within the tests subfolder and then run:

uv run pytest

You can also test the tap-pokemon CLI interface directly using uv run:

uv run tap-pokemon --help

Testing with Meltano

Note: This tap will work in any Singer environment and does not require Meltano. Examples here are for convenience and to streamline end-to-end orchestration scenarios.

Use Meltano to run an EL pipeline:

uvx meltano invoke tap-pokemon --version
uvx meltano run tap-pokemon target-jsonl

SDK Dev Guide

See the dev guide for more instructions on how to use the SDK to develop your own taps and targets.