Pokemon Go API – Time Limited Shiny Pokemon API

This post talks about the newest Pokemon Go API, the Time Limited Shiny Pokemon API on PoGoAPI.net.

What are time limited shiny Pokemon?

In Pokemon Go some Pokemon can only be found as shiny during special events or times of the year.

Pokemon Go will announce when these are available and outside of these times it will be impossible to find a shiny variant of this Pokemon.

Getting the list of Time Limited Shiny Pokemon

This API returns all Pokemon that are only shiny during certain events.

GET /api/v1/time_limited_shiny_pokemon.json

This return an array of dicts with the keys form, id, and name.

Example data

[
    {
        "form": "Normal",
        "id": 808,
        "name": "Meltan"
    },
    {
        "form": "Normal",
        "id": 201,
        "name": "Unown"
    },
    {
        "form": "Normal",
        "id": 235,
        "name": "Smeargle"
    },
    {
        "form": "Normal",
        "id": 132,
        "name": "Ditto"
    }
]

The full documentation is available on the PoGoAPI.net documentation page.

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