Go version of phoney badger's pokemon-colorscripts , with a boost on speed

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• Includes Pokémon from all generations, along with shiny, mega, Gigantamax, and regional variants
• Ability to print random Pokémon with options to filter by generation and form
• Print specific Pokémon by name
• Display both the sprite and Pokédex entry

If you're on Arch, you can also use the AUR:

yay -S pokego-bin

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

makepkg -si

Download the latest release. Unzip the executable

Then move the executable to your path

mv builds/linux/pokego ~/.local/bin

You can also clone the repository and compile manually by doing:

git clone https://github.com/rubiin/pokego.git cd pokego just build 

Then move the executable to your path

mv builds/linux/pokego ~/.local/bin

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

Run the help command pokego --help to see the following help message.

USAGE: -form string Show an alternate form of a pokemon -list Print list of all pokemon -name string Select pokemon by name -no-title Do not display pokemon name -random string Show a random pokemon. This flag can optionally be followed by a generation number or range (default "1-8") -shiny Show the shiny version of the pokemon instead -version Show the cli version

To get the help of the random subcommand.

Print a specific pokemon

pokego --name charizard 

Print a specific shiny pokemon

pokego --name spheal -s 

Print a specific pokemon together with its pokedex entry

pokego --name mudkip 

Print an alternative form of a pokemon

pokego --name blastoise --form mega 

Print a random pokemon (gens 1-8)

pokego 

Print random pokemon from generations 1-3 (range)

pokego --random 1-3 

Print a random pokemon from generations 1,3 and 6

pokego --random 1,3,6 

The start time is the mean of 5 consecutive run using time coreutil on my personal laptop[Acer Aspire 5] on 2024/10/06

Pokego's Pokémon sprites were sourced from PokéSprite and transformed into Unicode format using Phoney Badger's pokemon-generator-scripts.

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