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Issues & limitations

This document describes all known issues and limitations when using the crawl and map commands.

Card

In general

  • Seal Stone card cannot be properly crawled at this time.

Bulbapedia

  • If an expansion page is intended for multiple TCG regions, the card list on the left is always assumed to be the International one. If the International card list hasn't been added yet, the Japan card list might be on the left instead.
  • The card text (effects, attacks, descriptions, etc.) might be incorrect or outdated because reprints are generally listed on the same page.
  • There's no way of knowing if unnumbered Energy cards of the Japan TCG region belong to the expansion they were crawled for.
  • If a card table contains card numbers from multiple expansions (e.g., Battle Academy (Mewtwo)), the card number sorting orders will be organized incorrectly.

PkmnCards

  • Special characters are incorrectly included as normal text: Mudkip Star instead of Mudkip ☆ for example.

Number sorting order

  • The card number sorting order might not be correct because of gaps in card lists. This is especially true for promotional cards such as the SWSH Black Star Promos.

Variants

  • Only the Standard Set, Standard Set Foil, Parallel Set (Reverse Foil), Parallel Set (Energy Foil), Parallel Set (Expansion Stamp Foil) and Promo variants can be assigned based on the rarity of the card, because there are no sources that have variant information yet.
  • If the rarity of a card is null, its variants cannot properly be determined. Therefore the Standard Set variant will be assigned by default. This might be incorrect for some cards such as promotional cards and Machamp (Base Set 8/102).
  • If the rarity of a card is Rare Secret, there's no way of knowing if the card is holographic.
  • Because variants are assigned based on the rarity of the card, some parallel set variants might incorrectly be assigned to cards of an expansion that doesn't have a parallel set.
  • Parallel set variants are only crawled for the International TCG region.
  • In very rare occassions, Pokémon ex, Pokémon ☆, Pokémon V, or other cards with a similar rarity tier, are non-holographic, meaning they're incorrectly assigned the Standard Set Foil instead of the Standard Set variant.

Types

  • Full art card types such as Full Art Pokémon and Full Art Trainer cannot be crawled for all cards. A best guess is made based on the name and rarity of the card. This also means that if the rarity of the card is Promo or null, full art card types might not be crawled.
  • Not all card types can be crawled for the Japan TCG region, because they cannot be deduced from the rarity of the card.

Bulbapedia

  • Because Bulbapedia lists card reprints on the same page, old Trainer cards might incorrectly get newer card types assigned.
  • The Terastal Pokémon card type cannot be crawled (yet).

Energy types

  • The energy types of Special Energy cards can inherently not be crawled.

Bulbapedia

  • Newer energy types are incorrectly assigned to older Rainbow Energy-like cards.

Effects

Bulbapedia

  • Effects of Trainer cards cannot be properly crawled at this time.

Attacks

Bulbapedia

  • Attacks of Trainer cards cannot be properly crawled at this time.

Rules

PkmnCards

  • The card rules might be crawled out of order.

Rarity

Bulbapedia

  • Some unofficial card rarities cannot be automatically translated and will be set to null.

Illustrators

Bulbapedia

  • For some cards, the illustrators cannot be crawled because they're simply not listed.
  • The card illustrators might be incorrect because reprints are generally listed on the same page.

Format

Bulbapedia

  • The card format will always be Unlimited, because Bulbapedia doesn't include it.

PkmnCards

  • The card format is inconsistent for some cards. For example, Unlimited might be crawled instead of Standard. Card formats will have to be manually checked because of this.

Image

In general

Malie

  • Cards of the Hidden Fates Shiny Vault are incorrectly spread over multiple expansions.
  • Certain card numbers of the Celebrations Classic Collection overlap.

PokemonCard

  • LEGEND card images ((上)) cannot be crawled because their card numbers are combined.