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sindresorhus / emoj

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line :open_mouth: :sparkles: :raised_hands: :horse: :boom: :see_no_evil:
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`emoj` API is down #49

Closed Richienb closed 3 years ago

Richienb commented 3 years ago

http://emoji.getdango.com/api/emoji no longer goes anywhere. We might want to consider trying to get the offline predictions SDK.

sindresorhus commented 3 years ago

The API goes down sometimes. Hopefully, it will come back. I doubt we can do the SDK as it's paid.

Richienb commented 3 years ago

Unfortunately, this was not actually the first occasion in which the API went down. It has been consistently down for months.

Richienb commented 3 years ago

It seems that Dango has disappeared for good. The website no longer exists and the app is no longer on Google Play.

sindresorhus commented 3 years ago

Yeah... Seems we need to take out the API calls and rely only on the emoji lib dependency.

Richienb commented 3 years ago

For posterity:

In 2012, Toronto-based company Whirlscape was founded as a result of a Y Combinator W14 seed investment and others. It was co-founded by Will Walmsley (Linkedin) as CEO, Severin Smith (twitter) (Linkedin) as CPO and Xavier Snelgrove (twitter) (Linkedin) as CTO.

In 2013, the company published Minuum, an Android and iOS predictive keyboard app that aimed to predict the text and emojis that a user wanted to type.

In 2014, the company published Dango, an Android app that provided a emoji suggestions widget that appeared when the user input text. The app was removed from Google Play at some point between December 17, 2019 and June 10, 2021; and the website changed owners on May 27, 2021 after being down since at least December 2020 (according to the Wayback Machine).