GitHub emoji: gemoji. Information on emoji such as description, names, and tags.

npm:

npm install gemoji

gemoji is also available for bower, component, and duo, and as an AMD, CommonJS, and globals module, uncompressed and compressed.

var gemoji = require('gemoji');

gemoji.name['cat'];

Yields:

{
  "description": "cat face",
  "names": ["cat"],
  "tags": ["pet"],
  "name": "cat",
  "emoji": "🐱"
}

gemoji.unicode['🐶'];

Yields:

{
  "description": "dog face",
  "names": ["dog"],
  "tags": ["pet"],
  "name": "dog",
  "emoji": "🐶"
}

...and...

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

Yields:

{
  "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.

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MIT © Titus Wormer