emoji entities

This module downloads the latest list of emoji characters from unicode.org and adds string.emojis, a concatenated str containing all characters, to be used just as the other string entities (e.g. string.letters).

Dependencies

requests

Installation

• using pip or similar:

pip install emojientities

• manually:

  • Clone this repository

  git clone https://gitlab.com/christoph.fink/python-emojientities.git
  

  • Change to the cloned directory
  • Use the Python setuptools to install the package:

  python ./setup.py install
  

Usage

This module extends the character classes provided by the string standard library to include an emoji range. To use it, import emojientities and string and use string.emojis to, for instance, filter emojis in a text:

import emojientities
import string

# example string from: Hiippala et al. (2018) Exploring the linguistic landscape of 
# geotagged social media content in urban environments. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
photoCaption = "Great weather in Helsinki!!! On holiday with @username.:-) #helsinki #visitfinland 🤓☀️🛳️"

emojisOnly = "".join(
    [c for c in photoCaption if c in string.emojis]
)
# '🤓☀️🛳️'

photoCaptionWithoutEmojis = "".join(
    [c for c in photoCaption if c not in string.emojis]
)
# 'Great weather in Helsinki!!! On holiday with @username.:-) #helsinki #visitfinland '