Emoji source host down? about alfred-emoj

[Bergrebell]

in case somebody wants to fix it for themself:

1. go to https://emoji-api.com and obtain an API key
2. locate the location of the nodeJS script (in alfred -> workflows -> right click on Emoj -> open in finder)
3. update index.js so that it looks like this

'use strict';
const alfy = require('alfy');

(async () => {
	const data = await alfy.fetch(`https://emoji-api.com/emojis?search=${alfy.input}&access_key=YOUR_API_KEY`);

	let all = '';

	const items = data.map(item => {
		const emoji = item.character;
		all += emoji;

		return {
			title: emoji,
			arg: emoji,
			icon: {
				path: ' ' // Hide icon
			}
		};
	});

	items.push({
		title: all,
		arg: all,
		icon: {
			path: ' '
		}
	});

  alfy.output(items);
})();

4. replace YOUR_API_KEY with your API key from step 1.

hope that helps :)

[vinkla]

I've reached out to the company who runs the API (since I maintained the kaomoji version). This is their statement:

Unfortunately our company is winding down, the emoji and kaomoji api are shutting down. The keyboard Minuum will be spun out but the API are reaching end of life.

[jessedobbelaere]

Yeah still broken indeed :( #26 mentioned it too but it has been a few days now already, does not seem to be a short downtime period, maybe they shut it down for good? In that case we might have to search for a new API, e.g. https://emoji-api.com/ or others

[sindresorhus]

This project should be changed to depend on https://github.com/sindresorhus/emoj, which does have an alternative emoji source now.

[elalemanyo]

in case somebody wants to fix it for themself:

1. go to https://emoji-api.com and obtain an API key
2. locate the location of the nodeJS script (in alfred -> workflows -> right click on Emoj -> open in finder)
3. update index.js so that it looks like this

'use strict';
const alfy = require('alfy');

(async () => {
	const data = await alfy.fetch(`https://emoji-api.com/emojis?search=${alfy.input}&access_key=YOUR_API_KEY`);

	let all = '';

	const items = data.map(item => {
		const emoji = item.character;
		all += emoji;

		return {
			title: emoji,
			arg: emoji,
			icon: {
				path: ' ' // Hide icon
			}
		};
	});

	items.push({
		title: all,
		arg: all,
		icon: {
			path: ' '
		}
	});

  alfy.output(items);
})();

1. replace YOUR_API_KEY with your API key from step 1.

hope that helps :)

@Bergrebell thanks for your fix, it works great! But I found that sometimes the data is empty 🤷‍♂️, for example I test it with funny and I don't get any answer... because of that maybe is better to check if data is there?

'use strict';
const alfy = require('alfy');

(async () => {
	const data = await alfy.fetch(`https://emoji-api.com/emojis?search=${alfy.input}&access_key=YOUR_API_KEY`);

	let all = '';

	if (data) {
		const items = data.map(item => {
			const emoji = item.character;
			all += emoji;

			return {
				title: emoji,
				arg: emoji,
				icon: {
					path: ' ' // Hide icon
				}
			};
		});

		items.push({
			title: all,
			arg: all,
			icon: {
				path: ' '
			}
		});

  	alfy.output(items);
  }
})();

[chrisspiegl]

@sindresorhus Could this be updated to support a new Emoji API?