This project provides easy-to-parse data about emoji, along with a spritesheet-style images for use on the web.

You can see a catalog of the emoji data here: http://unicodey.com/emoji-data/table.htm

Images are extracted from their sources and this library attempts to track the latest available versions. If you're looking for older versions of Apple of Android images (such as the Hairy Heart) then you'll need to look at previous revisions.

• Apple Emoji: Copyright © Apple Inc. - OS X 10.11 beta
• Android Emoji: Copyright © The Android Open Source Project - Lollipop
• Twitter Emoji Copyright © Twitter, Inc. - The original release
• Emoji One Emoji: Copyright © Ranks.com Inc. - master as of 2015-03-05

Using the data

The file you want is emoji.json. It contains an array of entries for emoji that look like this:

[
	{
		"name": "WHITE UP POINTING INDEX",
		"unified": "261D",
		"variations": [
			"261D-FE0F"
		],
		"docomo": null,
		"au": "E4F6",
		"softbank": "E00F",
		"google": "FEB98",
		"image": "261d.png",
		"sheet_x": 1,
		"sheet_y": 2,
		"short_name": "point_up",
		"short_names": [
			"point_up"
		],
		"text": null,
		"texts": null,
		"category": "People",
		"sort_order": 116,
		"has_img_apple": true,
		"has_img_google": true,
		"has_img_twitter": true,
		"has_img_emojione": false,
		"skin_variations": {
			"261D-1F3FB": {
				"unified": "261D-1F3FB",
				"image": "261d-1f3fb.png",
				"sheet_x": 1,
				"sheet_y": 3,
				"has_img_apple": true,
				"has_img_google": false,
				"has_img_twitter": false,
				"has_img_emojione": false
			},
			...
		}
	},
	...
]

An explanation of the various fields is in order:

• name - The offical Unicode name, in SHOUTY UPPERCASE.
• unified - The Unicode codepoint, as 4-5 hex digits. Where an emoji needs 2 or more codepoints, they are specified like 1F1EA-1F1F8.
• variations - An array of commonly used codepoint variations.
• docomo, au, softbank, google - The Unicode codepoints used by various mobile vendors.
• image - The name of the image file.
• sheet_x & sheet_y - The position of the image in the spritesheets.
• short_name - The commonly-agreed upon short name for the image, as supported in campfire, github etc via the :colon-syntax:
• short_names - An array of all the known short names.
• text - An ASCII version of the emoji (e.g. :)), or null where none exists.
• texts - An array of ASCII emoji that should convert into this emoji. Each ASCII emoji will only appear against a single emoji entry.
• has_img_* - A flag for whether the given image set has an image (named by the image prop) available.
• skin_variations - For skin-varying emoji, a list of alternative glyphs.

Version history

• 2015-05-28 : v2.0.0 - First tagged version, tracking new iOS 8 skin-tone emoji
• 2015-09-16 : v2.1.0 - Updated to OS X 10.11 beta, added new flags and spock emoji