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

npm:

npm install gemoji

var gemoji = require('gemoji')

console.log(gemoji.name.cat)

Yields:

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

console.log(gemoji.unicode['🐶'])

Yields:

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

...and...

console.log(gemoji.unicode['\uD83D\uDCA9'])

Yields:

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

See support.md.

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.

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

wooorm/gemoji is not affiliated with GitHub.

MIT © Titus Wormer