Cardex API

Why this API?

No cost, no mandatory sign-up. An optional free API key lifts the 100 requests/day limit if you need it.

196 sets and nearly 21,000 cards, with rarity, types, indicative prices and artwork.

Plain REST/JSON, predictable endpoints, standard pagination and filters.

Search for a card by name: this calls GET /api/cards directly.

Type an API path and press Enter — e.g. /api/cards/base1-4, /api/sets?series=Base.

↑ / ↓ to navigate command history.

No authentication needed: a plain HTTP call is enough.

curl "https://api.cardex.example/api/cards?name=Pikachu"

curl "https://api.cardex.example/api/sets/base1/cards"

Full interactive documentation is available at /swagger.

Anonymous requests are capped at 100/day per IP to prevent abuse. Register your email to get a free API key by mail and remove that limit.

Endpoint	Description
`GET /api/sets`	List sets (filter by series, search by name, pagination)
`GET /api/sets/{id}`	Set detail
`GET /api/sets/{id}/cards`	Cards in a set
`GET /api/cards`	List cards (filters by name, set, rarity, type, pagination)
`GET /api/cards/{id}`	Card detail, including game data (attacks, abilities, per-variant pricing...) once the card has been enriched

Some cards haven't been enriched yet (see enrichedAt in the response) — catalog enrichment is ongoing, block by block.

Calls filtering by set (e.g. GET /api/sets/{id}/cards) use the set's technical identifier, not its display name.

Show the list of 196 sets and their identifiers

This catalog is also the database behind Cardex, the desktop and mobile app for managing a Pokémon card collection that this project comes from.