pierrolivier / gemoji

Information regarding GitHub emoji: gemoji

gemoji

Gemoji (GitHub Emoji) maps Gemoji short-codes and unicode emoji to objects containing info on their respective category, description, names, and tags.

Installation

npm:

npm install gemoji

Usage

var gemoji = require('gemoji');

gemoji.name.cat;

Yields:

{ category: 'nature',
  description: 'cat face',
  names: [ 'cat' ],
  tags: [ 'pet' ],
  name: 'cat',
  emoji: '🐱' }

By unicode emoji

gemoji.unicode['🐶'];

Yields:

{ category: 'nature',
  description: 'dog face',
  names: [ 'dog' ],
  tags: [ 'pet' ],
  name: 'dog',
  emoji: '🐶' }

...and...

gemoji.unicode['\uD83D\uDCA9'];

Yields:

{ category: 'people',
  description: 'pile of poo',
  names: [ 'hankey', 'poop', 'shit' ],
  tags: [ 'crap' ],
  name: 'hankey',
  emoji: '💩' }

Supported Gemoji

See support.md.

Data

The emoji list is crawled from github/gemoji and later processed for relevant information. See its license for more information.

No images are included in this repository—the copyrighted material may or may not be available on the users computer.

Related

• emoji-emotion — List of emoji rated for valence
• emoticon — Info on ASCII emoticons
• strip-skin-tone — Strip skin-tones from emoji

Disclaimer

wooorm/gemoji is not affiliated with GitHub.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer