aaronbuchanan / emoji-translate

:books: Translate text to ✨emoji ✨!

emoji-translate

You know how sometimes you type English and it has all these letters and words and no emoji? Yeah, emoji-translate fixes that.

Packaged demos

This is what you actually want, right? Can't blame you. Here you go. 👏

There's also a Chrome extension that lets you translate any page on the internet to emoji. Your nightmares are finally over.

Emoji-translate as a library

You can also use this as a standalone library for your own translation purposes.

Install

bower install emoji-translate

Usage

When emoji-translate.js is loaded, it will load json of emoji names and keywords, save it in a global called allEmojis, and fire an emoji-ready event. allEmojis has this structure:

{
  "grinning": {
    "keywords": ["face", "smile", "happy", "joy"],
    "char": "😀",
    "category": "people"
  },
  "grin": {
    "keywords": ["face", "happy", "smile", "joy"],
    "char": "😁",
    "category": "people"
  },
  ...
}

The emoji-translate api has 2 methods:

• getMeAnEmoji(word) -- returns the emoji translation of the english word, or the empty string if one doesn't exist.
• translateWord(word) -- returns a <span> element that contains either the original english word, or the emoji translation, ready for display.

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This was made as part of an ⚡️emoji hackday⚡️ and is powered by emojilib, a magical json file of emoji names and keywords y'all should use in all your projects.