Reaction emojis aren't currently shown in the HTML export.
While perhaps less informational than the actual message text, they do often have semantic value beyond simple mood indication - e.g. as voting and status tracking.
Unlike message text, this doesn't readily specify a unicode character, just a "shortcode". I did some digging, and this looks like a good source to get a mapping for the standard ones: https://github.com/iamcal/emoji-data
Slack allows users to add custom shortcodes, too, so the mapping code should probably leave those as text (e.g. <code class="custom-reaction">:backtothechoppah:</code>).
List of users for a given reaction could perhaps be put in HTML SPAN's tooltip.
Reaction emojis aren't currently shown in the HTML export. While perhaps less informational than the actual message text, they do often have semantic value beyond simple mood indication - e.g. as voting and status tracking.
Stored JSON data contains the data:
Unlike message text, this doesn't readily specify a unicode character, just a "shortcode". I did some digging, and this looks like a good source to get a mapping for the standard ones: https://github.com/iamcal/emoji-data
Slack allows users to add custom shortcodes, too, so the mapping code should probably leave those as text (e.g.
<code class="custom-reaction">:backtothechoppah:</code>
).List of users for a given reaction could perhaps be put in HTML SPAN's tooltip.