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user2667066
user2667066

Reputation: 2109

Programmatically get a PNG for a unicode emoji

In python I have a combined emoji like this: "👨" + "\u200D" + "🔧" which is normally represented as https://emojipedia.org/male-mechanic/. I want to get a PNG version to use as a plot point (in matplotlib, if that helps). Is there any official or unofficial place where I can convert unicode versions of emojis into PNG equivalents?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2902

Answers (1)

user2667066
user2667066

Reputation: 2109

For anyone else looking for an answer, at the moment I'm using the PNGs from https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html, with a hack that parses the web page, like this

class EmojiConverter:
    def __init__(self):
        import requests
        import re
        self.data = requests.get('https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html').text
    def to_base64_png(self, emoji, version=0):
        """For different versions, you can set version = 0 for , """
        html_search_string = r"<img alt='{}' class='imga' src='data:image/png;base64,([^']+)'>" #'
        matchlist = re.findall(html_search_string.format(emoji), self.data)
        return matchlist[version]

e = EmojiConverter()
b64 = e.to_base64_png("👨"+"\u200D" + "🔧")

Upvotes: 4

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