Pokedex-Markdown

A pokemon pokedex in markdown format

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Pokédex Queries

The Pokédex can be queried using the Obsidian Dataview Plugin.

Local Obsidian dataview plugin queries

If Obsidian is being used to view these Pokémon Markdown documents in an Obsidian Vault and the Dataview Obsidian Plugin is enabled then it is possible to query the Pokédex using Dataview.

The Pokémon markdown has been curated to include metadata describing many Pokémon attributes. These include:

name: Pokémon Name
type: Pokémon Types
abilities: Pokémon Abilities
hitpoints: Hit Points
attack: Attack Strength
defense: Defense Strength
specialattack: Special Attack Strength
specialdefense: Special Defense Strength
speed: Speed
total: Total Points

Dataview queries can combine these attributes in a variety of ways to retrieve Pokémon matching the query terms. For example, to retrieve all Pokémon with Hit Points greater than 200, add the following Dataview code block to a markdown document in this vault:

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability",
  hitpoints AS "Hit Points"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE hitpoints > 200
SORT name ASC
```

The above Dataview code block produces the following output:

TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability",
  hitpoints AS "Hit Points"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE hitpoints > 200
SORT name ASC

Or, if you want to find all Pokémon in the Pokédex of type “Dragon” with Hit Points greater than 200, then combine queries:

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability",
  hitpoints AS "Hit Points"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE hitpoints > 200 and contains(type, "Dragon")
SORT name ASC
```

The above Dataview code block produces the following output:

TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability",
  hitpoints AS "Hit Points"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE hitpoints > 200 and contains(type, "Dragon")
SORT name ASC

Query the Pokédex on a website

If the Pokédex has been deployed on a website then something like the following could be used to allow website visitors to query the Pokédex:

<select id="poketype" name="poketype">
  <option value="none" selected disabled hidden>Select a Type</option>
  <option value="bug">Bug</option>
  <option value="dark">Dark</option>
  <option value="dragon">Dragon</option>
  <option value="electric">Electric</option>
  <option value="fairy">Fairy</option>
  <option value="fighting">Fighting</option>
  <option value="fire">Fire</option>
  <option value="flying">Flying</option>
  <option value="ghost">Ghost</option>
  <option value="grass">Grass</option>
  <option value="ground">Ground</option>
  <option value="ice">Ice</option>
  <option value="normal">Normal</option>
  <option value="poison">Poison</option>
  <option value="psychic">Psychic</option>
  <option value="rock">Rock</option>
  <option value="shadow">Shadow</option>
  <option value="steel">Steel</option>
  <option value="water">Water</option>
  <option value="unknown">Unknown</option>
</select>
<button type="button" onclick="showType()">Show Selected Type</button>

Which looks something like:

TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE type = "Dark" and abilities = "Illusion"
SORT name ASC

On the backend Dataview queries could be performed by the showType function using Dataview code blocks:

Grass type with “Water Absorb” ability OR Abilities contain Gluttony and Liquid Ooze

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE (type = "Grass" and 
       contains(abilities, "Water Absorb")) or
      (contains(abilities, "Gluttony") and
       contains(abilities, "Liquid Ooze"))
```

Which produces:

TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE (type = "Grass" and 
       contains(abilities, "Water Absorb")) or
      (contains(abilities, "Gluttony") and
       contains(abilities, "Liquid Ooze"))

Type is Dark and Ability is Illusion

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE type = "Dark" and abilities = "Illusion"
SORT name ASC
```

Would produce:

TABLE WITHOUT ID
  file.link AS "Name",
  type AS "Type",
  abilities AS "Ability"
FROM "Pokemon"
WHERE type = "Dark" and abilities = "Illusion"
SORT name ASC