update list of emojis

README.md

@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@
 - for unreads:
     - option to disable favicon badge changing on unreads
     - option to disable title showing unreads
+- update the list of emojis:
+    - switched weird unicode ones to proper emojis
+    - emojis are now sorted by category (like on every other emoji picker) instead of alphabetically
+    - all emojis go by their unicode names instead of the shortened ones, eg :100: is now :hundred_points:
+        - this wasn't intentional, but keeping the old names would require way more work
+    - script to get new emojis is included for future unicode versions
 
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tools/emoji_merger.js

@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-/*
-  Emoji merger script, quick hack of a tool to:
-  - update some missing emoji from an external source
-  - sort the emoji
-  - remove all multipart emoji (reactions don't allow them)
-
-  Merges emoji from here: https://gist.github.com/oliveratgithub/0bf11a9aff0d6da7b46f1490f86a71eb
-  to the simpler format we're using.
-*/
-
-// Existing emojis we have
-const oldEmojiFilename = '../static/emoji.json'
-
-// The file downloaded from https://gist.github.com/oliveratgithub/0bf11a9aff0d6da7b46f1490f86a71eb
-const newEmojiFilename = 'emojis.json'
-
-// Output, replace the static/emoji.json with this file if it looks correct
-const outputFilename = 'output.json'
-
-const run = () => {
-  const fs = require('fs')
-
-  let newEmojisObject = {}
-  let emojisObject = {}
-
-  let data = fs.readFileSync(newEmojiFilename, 'utf8')
-
-  // First filter out anything that's more than one codepoint
-  const newEmojis = JSON.parse(data).emojis.filter(e => e.emoji.length <= 2)
-
-  // Create a table with format { shortname: emoji }, remove the :
-  newEmojis.forEach(e => {
-    const name = e.shortname.slice(1, e.shortname.length - 1).toLowerCase()
-    if (name.length > 0) {
-      newEmojisObject[name] = e.emoji
-    }
-  })
-
-  data = fs.readFileSync(oldEmojiFilename, 'utf8')
-
-  emojisObject = JSON.parse(data)
-
-  // Get rid of longer emojis that don't play nice with reactions
-  Object.keys(emojisObject).forEach(e => {
-    if (emojisObject[e].length > 2) emojisObject[e] = undefined
-  })
-
-  // Add new emojis from the new tables to the old table
-  Object.keys(newEmojisObject).forEach(e => {
-    if (!emojisObject[e] && newEmojisObject[e].length <= 2) {
-      emojisObject[e] = newEmojisObject[e]
-    }
-  })
-
-  // Sort by key
-  const sorted = Object.keys(emojisObject).sort().reduce((acc, key) => {
-    if (key.length === 0) return acc
-    acc[key] = emojisObject[key]
-    return acc
-  }, {})
-
-  fs.writeFile(outputFilename, JSON.stringify(sorted, null, 2), 'utf8', (err) => {
-    if (err) console.log('Error writing file', err)
-  })
-}
-
-run()

tools/update_emoji.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# python in a js project? lunacy
+
+import json, requests
+
+emojiListSrc = requests.get("https://github.com/muan/unicode-emoji-json/raw/refs/heads/main/data-by-emoji.json")
+emojiList = json.loads(emojiListSrc.content)
+newEmojiList = {}
+
+for emoji in emojiList:
+    newEmojiList[emojiList[emoji]["slug"]] = emoji
+
+output = open("../static/emoji.json", "w+")
+output.write(json.dumps(newEmojiList, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False))