Description of the emot library

Emot is a python library to extract the emojis and emoticons from a text(string). All the emojis and emoticons are taken from a reliable source i.e. Wikipedia.org.

Compatibility

It works fine in any Python 2.xx and 3.xx.

Working

The Emot library takes a string as an input and returns a list of dictonary.

Example

>>> import emot
>>> text = "I love python 👨 :-)"
>>> emot.emoji(text)
>>> [{'value': '👨', 'mean': ':man:', 'location': [14, 14], 'flag': True}]
>>> emot.emoticons(text)
>>> {'value': [':-)'], 'location': [[16, 19]], 'mean': ['Happy face smiley'], 'flag': True}

New version 2.0 of emot library return dictonary of and you can loop every data based on below example. Here, value, location, mean are list and flag is boolean.

>>> text = "I love python 👨 :-)"
>>> ans = emot.emoticons(text)
>>> ans
{'value': [':-)'], 'location': [[16, 19]], 'mean': ['Happy face smiley'], 'flag': True}
>>> ans['value']
':-)'
>>> ans['location']
[16, 19]
>>> ans['mean']
['Happy face smiley']
>>> ans['flag']
True

Installation

Via pip:

$ pip install emot --upgrade

From master branch:

$ git clone https://github.com/NeelShah18/emot.git
$ cd emot
$ python setup.py install

Developing

$ git clone https://github.com/NeelShah18/emot.git
$ cd emot

Links

Emoji Cheat Sheet

Official unicode list

official emoticons list

Authors

Neel Shah / @NeelShah18

Shubham Rohilla / @kakashubham