# tcgdex/cards-database

Pokémon Trading Card Game Card (TCG) Database for the TCGdex API. ⭐ Leave a star if the project interest you !

Repository: https://github.com/tcgdex/cards-database
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cards-database
Homepage: https://tcgdex.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pokemon, tcg, trading, card, game, tcgdex, database, cards-database, graphql, bunjs
Last push: 2026-09-02T15:29:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 93, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2387, "days_push": 0, "days_rel": 46, "gap_med": 15, "n_releases_24m": 36}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1045, forks 221 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:18.445755+00:00)

## What it is
A multilingual Pokémon Trading Card Game card database powering the TCGdex API, containing card images and most card information in many languages. It can be consumed via the hosted API, official SDKs, or self-hosted using the included Dockerfile.

## Use cases
- look up pokemon card details and images
- build a pokemon tcg collection tracker
- get pokemon card data in multiple languages
- self-host a pokemon tcg api
- fetch card prices and set information for a deck builder
- query pokemon cards via graphql

## When to choose
- you need comprehensive, multilingual Pokémon TCG card data
- you want a ready-made API or SDKs instead of scraping card data yourself
- you want to self-host the database with Docker

## When to avoid
- you need data for other trading card games
- you need real-time market pricing data
- you need a general-purpose card game engine rather than a data source

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: database, search-engine, api-framework, graphql
- domain: gaming-tools, databases, apis
- platform: self-hosted, bun
- tags: pokemon-tcg, card-database, multilanguage, tcgdex, card-images, open-data, localization, docker, nodejs, typescript

## Member repositories
- tcgdex/cards-database (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:18.445755+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:07:35.739181+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tcgdex/cards-database (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:18.445755+00:00, sha 16d8aa2d2d07)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.