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Implement Shortcode Search #7
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emojipedia seems to use the unicode name of the emojis in the urls of the emoji pages. For example, the page for 😄 is listed under grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes, which turns out to be the URL-encoded version of that emoji's name. So, all we'd need to do to create the URL from the listing on unicode.org is make all characters in the emoji name lowercase, replace all spaces with dashes, and then insert that to the string |
I'm just gonna move ahead and try to draft this functionality in a new branch of my fork. The branch is based on emoji-packs@2cdd2c8, which currently lives as PR #8. |
There's also another page that might be more useful. Here's the example page for 😄. The format of the URL is These |
It'd be cool of emoji shortcodes like
:zap:
and:tada:
used by sites like github, discord, slack, etc could be included in the search data.There are sites with data on this, like emojipedia, for example. It's just a matter of finding where the data is, and modifying EmojiSpider.py to scrape them.
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