Pokemon Card Game API

A RESTful API built with FastAPI for managing Pokemon Pocket Trading Card Game (TCG) data. This project provides a backend service for storing, retrieving, and managing Pokemon card information.

🎯 Features

• FastAPI Backend: Modern, fast web framework for building APIs with Python
• Database Integration: SQLAlchemy ORM for robust database operations
• Data Validation: Pydantic schemas for request/response validation
• Web Scraping: Selenium integration for automated data collection
• Data Management: Pandas for efficient data processing

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Framework: FastAPI
• ORM: SQLAlchemy (>=1.4)
• Database: PostgreSQL (via psycopg2)
• Validation: Pydantic
• Data Processing: Pandas
• Web Scraping: Selenium
• Utilities: SQLAlchemy Utils

📁 Project Structure

Pokemon-Card-Game-API/
├── fapi_app_backend/    # FastAPI application code
├── database/            # Database models and configuration
├── schemas/             # Pydantic schemas for validation
├── data/                # Data files and resources
├── __pycache__/         # Python cache files
└── requirements.txt     # Python dependencies

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• PostgreSQL database
• pip (Python package manager)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/LuisJG8/Pokemon-Card-Game-API.git
cd Pokemon-Card-Game-API

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your database configuration (create a .env file or configure database settings)

4. Run the application:

# Command will depend on your main application file
# Example: uvicorn main:app --reload

📦 Dependencies

SQLAlchemy>=1.4
pandas
psycorg2
pydantic
sqlalchemy_utils
selenium