emoji-downloader

Downloads emojis from https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html to PNG files.

Useful for example in combination with emoji-unicode to replace emojis in html text with image representations (e.g. like in my case to workaround lack of easy unicode support for custom EPUB files for Kindle).

Usage

1. Install dependencies

pipenv install

2. Run

pipenv run python emoji-downloader.py [--forcefetch] <variant>

Parameter	Description
variant	Variant of emoji to download. Corresponds to the table header text of the desired column (e.g. Appl, Wind, Twtr, FB etc.). Case-insensitive.
forcefetch	(Optional flag) If specified, forces (re)downloading of the source html, otherwise use cache if it exists from previous use (default at emoji/cache.html).

Example:

pipenv run python emoji-downloader.py Appl

Output is saved at emoji/<variant>/ (e.g. emoji/Appl/). Files are saved as <unicode_code>.png, without U+, joining codes with _ (e.g. 1f1e6_1f1e8.png, extracted from source html so subject to change).

Possible improvements

• Add option to extract all variants
• Cleaner code by removing asyncio and async dependencies (performance gain from async is untested and probably negligible at best)
• Specify custom output dir
• Specify custom cache file
• Specify different naming format(s)

Disclaimer: only tested on Windows.