This project provides easy-to-parse data about emoji, along with a spritesheet-style images for use on the web.

You can see a catalog of the emoji data here: http://unicodey.com/emoji-data/table.htm

The original images come from gemoji and you can use the individual images directly with the data too.

The file you want is emoji.json. It contains an array of entries for emoji that look like this:

[
	{
		"name": "BLACK SUN WITH RAYS",
		"unified": "2600",
		"variations": [ "2600-FE0F" ],
		"docomo": "E63E",
		"au": "E488",
		"softbank": "E04A",
		"google": "FE000",
		"image": "2600.png",
		"sheet_x": 25,
		"sheet_y": 6,
		"short_name": "sunny",
		"short_names": [ "sunny" ],
		"text": null,
	},
	...
]

An explanation of the various fields is in order:

• name - The offical Unicode name, in SHOUTY UPPERCASE
• unified - The Unicode codepoint, as 4-5 hex digits. Where an emoji needs 2 or more codepoints, they are specified like 1F1EA-1F1F8.
• variations - An array of commonly used codepoint variations.
• docomo, au, softbank, google - The Unicode codepoints used by various mobile vendors.
• image - The name of the image file in gemoji/images/emoji/unicode/
• sheet_x & sheet_y - The position of the image in the spritesheets.
• short_name - The commonly-agreed upon short name for the image, as supported in campfire, github etc via the :colon-syntax:
• short_names - An array of all the known short names.
• text - An ASCII version of the emoji (e.g. :)), or null where none exists.

The scripts in the build/ sub directory allow you to rebuild the data files from the unicode.org source materials and the images from the gemoji project.

You can rebuild by following these steps:

cd build/

# Rebuild catalog.php from the original data tables
wget http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/full.html
patch < source_html.patch
php build_catalog.php full.html > catalog.php

# Rebuild the master mapping
php build_names.php
wget http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UnicodeData.txt
php build_map.php
php build_pretty.php

# From the final mapping, build a preview table
php build_table.php > ../table.htm

# Rebuild positions and make the master spritesheets
# (This step requires ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick)
php build_image.php # this is slow!
php build_sheets.php