Get Emoji from its unicode

[iamsaksham]

is there any way by which we can get Emoji from its unicode?

[EtienneLem]

Not at the moment

[goodmind]

Is there any progress?

[Fauntleroy]

This is the temporary solution I added for my application:

import _ from 'lodash';
import { emojiIndex } from 'emoji-mart';

const { emojis } = emojiIndex;

export function getEmojiDataByNativeString (nativeString) {
  return _.find(emojis, { 'native': nativeString });
}

Not sure if this works in all cases yet. lodash isn't essential for this, I just use it elsewhere in my application.

[stnwk]

Example without lodash:

import { emojiIndex } from 'emoji-mart';

export function getEmojiDataByNativeString (nativeString) {
  return Object.values(emojiIndex.emojis).find(item => item.native === nativeString)
}

[johnsenpeder]

Won't work when the unicode has skin tones in it.

This should though:

import { emojiIndex } from 'emoji-mart';

export function getEmojiDataByNativeString(nativeString) {
  const skinTones = ['', '🏻', '🏼', '🏽', '🏾', '🏿'];

  let skin;
  let baseNativeString = nativeString;

  skinTones.forEach(skinTone => {
    baseNativeString = baseNativeString.replace(skinTone, '');
    if (nativeString.indexOf(skinTone) > 0) {
      skin = skinTones.indexOf(skinTone) + 1;
    }
  });

  const emojiData = Object.values(emojiIndex.emojis).find(item => item.native === baseNativeString);
  emojiData.skin = skin;

  return emojiData;
}

[jmcrthrs]

@johnsenpeder Very nice thanks.

However I have found a few instances where this doesn't work. They appear to be gender related:

person_with_ball man-bouncing-ball woman-bouncing-ball

You can have a play here to see the problem: https://codesandbox.io/s/oq8rkky5yq

[johnsenpeder]

@jmcrthrs yeah, seems to be gender related... :thinking: interesting..

[ifiokjr]

A quick fix would be to add the following since no other gender dependent emoji which I checked had the same problem. That being said I haven't investigated this fully.

import { emojiIndex } from 'emoji-mart';
import { BaseEmoji, CustomEmoji } from 'emoji-mart/dist-es/utils/emoji-index/nimble-emoji-index';

const isBaseEmoji = (emoji: BaseEmoji | CustomEmoji | undefined): emoji is BaseEmoji => {
  return Boolean(emoji && (emoji as BaseEmoji).native);
};

export function getEmojiDataByNativeString(nativeString: string) {
  const skinTones = ['', '🏻', '🏼', '🏽', '🏾', '🏿'];

  let skin = null;
  let baseNativeString = nativeString;

  skinTones.forEach(skinTone => {
    baseNativeString = baseNativeString.replace(skinTone, '');
    if (nativeString.indexOf(skinTone) > 0) {
      skin = skinTones.indexOf(skinTone) + 1;
    }
  });

  // Added to checks - no other gender dependent emoji which I checked had the same problem.
  if (baseNativeString === '⛹‍♀️') {
    baseNativeString = '⛹️‍♀️';
  } else if (baseNativeString === '⛹‍️♂️') {
    baseNativeString = '⛹️‍♂️';
  }

  const emojiData = Object.values(emojiIndex.emojis)
    .filter(isBaseEmoji)
    .find(item => item.native === baseNativeString);

  if (emojiData) {
    emojiData.skin = skin;
  }

  return emojiData;
}

[johnsenpeder]

@ifiokjr sadly it does happen with other ones too, :man-lifting-weights: is one

[TranquilMarmot]

For anybody else landing here from a Google search and wondering why this issue is closed, emoji-mart now has a getEmojiDataFromNative function 😄

https://github.com/missive/emoji-mart/blob/master/README.md#get-emoji-data-from-native