django-emoji

Emoji is a port of the GitHub gem gemoji to Django.

This app got two main use cases:

1. It'll try to replace items between :: with emojis, for instance : dog : (without the spaces) will become an emoji of a dog (🐶).
2. It'll try to replace unicode characters with emojis, for instance '✌️' with a victory symbol (✌️).

Version 2 release

Thanks to Tim Schilling we now have autoescaping enabled with the same logic as core Django. Because this might be a breaking change for users of this app the major version has been bumped. Apart from the filters adds the standard XSS protection of Django there are no other changes.

To get the old behavior of the app wrap the filter like this:

{% autoescape off %}
{{ emoji|emoji_replace }}
{% endautoescape %}

Quick start

1. Install django-emoji <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-emoji> from PyPi:

   pip install django-emoji
   

2. Add "emoji" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

   INSTALLED_APPS = (
       ...
       'emoji',
   )
   

3. Include the emoji URLconf in your project urls.py like this if you want to be able to get a JSON list of emojis:

   url(r'^emoji/', include('emoji.urls')),
   

4. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/emoji/all.json to get a json object with all emojis avilable

Python versions

Support for Django 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 with their respective versions of Python 2/3 support.

Settings

These are settings that can be configured in your settings.py:

Usage

API

Python

The Python class Emoji is a singleton and will return the same instance between instantiations. On load Emoji will load the name of all the emojis and their unicode equivalents into memory.

Javascript

The browser version caches all the emojis in localStorage so there won't be that many roundtrips to the server just to get a list of the emojis.

NOTE: Depends on jQuery or some other library that exports $.get.

Examples

Replace an emoji using Python templates by loading the tags in your template:

{% load emoji_tags %}
{{ blog_post.body|emoji_replace }}
{{ blog_post.body|emoji_replace_unicode }}
{{ blog_post.body|emoji_replace_html_entities }}

Replace emojis using Javascript (to for instance show a preview before the user saves what it is they are writing):

{% load emoji_tags %}

<script src="{% static 'emoji/js/emoji.js' %}"></script>
{% emoji_load %}

Emoji.get('dog') // => url stub to dog emoji or falsy
Emoji.get() // => all emojis available

Emoji.replace("It's raining :cats: and :dogs:.") // => It's raining <img src="..." alt="cats" class="emoji"> and <img src="..." alt="dogs" class="emoji">

What emoji_load does is that it sets the endpoint to retrieve the listing of all the available emojis and thus only works if the emoji urls has been included.

It is the equivalent of doing:

Emoji.setDataUrl('{% url 'emoji:list.json' %}').load();

Which is also available as template stub:

{% include 'emoji/script.html' %}

Usage from inside Python where the Emoji class mimics some of the behavior of a dict:

from emoji import Emoji
Emoji['dog'] # => url stub to dog emoji or None
'dog' in Emoji # => True
Emoji.keys() # => a list of all emojis by name
Emoji.replace("It's raining :cats: and :dogs:") # => It's raining <img src="..." alt="cats" class="emoji"> and <img src="..." alt="dogs" class="emoji">

Replacing unicode Emojis

Emoji has the ability to give you the name of an emoji from a unicode character. It can also replace every instance of emoji characters in a string with their image replacements.

Usage:

>>> from emoji import Emoji
>>> Emoji.name_for(u'\U000148b')
kiss
>>> Emoji.replace_unicode(u'I send a \U0001f48b!')
I send a <img src="/static/emoji/img/kiss.png" alt="kiss" class="emoji">

Note:

For best use of the unicode replacements use a build of Python that was built with wide unicode character support. From version 1.2 there is code added for dealing with unicode surrogate pairs and it should work well on narrow builds. But this has not been production tested so try it out properly. Please report any bugs found.

To test whether you got a narrow or wide build of Python run the following, if you get an exception it means you're running a narrow build.:

>>> print(unichr(0x0001f48b))
ValueError: unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python build)