Usage

npm i @emoji-platform-data/slack

import { byEmoji, byTitle } from "@emoji-platform-data/slack";

console.log(byEmoji["🐙"]);
/*
{
	aliases: [],
	category: "Animals & Nature",
	emoji: "🐙",
	keywords: ["animal", "creature", "ocean", "fish"],
	keywordsByLocale: {
		"de-DE": ["Tier", "kreatur", "ozean", "Fisch"],
		"ja-JP": ["動物", "生き物", "海", "魚"],
		...
	},
	name: "octopus",
	namesByLocale: {
		"de-DE": "oktopus",
		"ja-JP": "タコ",
		...
	},
	order: 613,
}
*/

• byEmoji takes a glyph as any platform writes it, with or without its U+FE0F: byEmoji["⚓️"] and byEmoji["⚓"] are the same entry.
• byTitle takes a PascalCase Emojipedia title.

Each entry is a SlackItem describing one emoji as Slack's own emoji picker knows it:

• name is the shortcode Slack writes the emoji as, and aliases are the others it accepts.
• keywords are the picker's other English search terms, such as celebrate for 🎉 (tada): a few dozen emoji, mostly newer people variants and less common flags, have none.
• order is the emoji's position in the picker, across all categories.
• Emoji the picker doesn't list, mostly the gender-neutral forms of older people emoji such as 👮 cop, have no category or order.

Other Locales

Besides English, Slack translates its emoji picker into de-DE, en-GB, es-ES, es-LA, fr-FR, it-IT, ja-JP, ko-KR, pt-BR, zh-CN, and zh-TW.

• keywordsByLocale and namesByLocale are the picker's search terms and names in each of those.
• Slack translates each English keyword once for all the emoji that use it, so a translation can suit some of them better than others.
• Terms a locale has no translation for stay in English, so en-GB is nearly all English.

This package is only static JSON and types, with no runtime dependencies, and its data is also in the combined emoji-platform-data.

Where This Data Comes From

This is a snapshot of the emoji data in Slack's web client JavaScript bundle and its per-locale string files, and DEVELOPMENT.md explains how to refresh it.

Skin tone variants, such as wave::skin-tone-3, are left out since they have no terms of their own.

The shortcodes, keywords, translations, categories, and ordering are Slack's: this package's MIT license only covers the code that packages them, and this package includes no Slack emoji artwork.