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🐙 [MIRROR] a Simple gemoji Emoji Extractor (for non macOS users) https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/SgEExt
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README.md

SgEExt — a Simple gemoji Emoji Extractor

Pronounced [sgɪksˈt]

Introduction

Let's have a talk about an usual situation.
You run a self-hosted Jekyll blog, with the jemoji plugin loaded so as to "enhanced" your content with some emojis.
You'd have noticed that by default the plugin renders your static pages with <img> whose src attributes are pointing to a GitHub's (Microsoft's) location.
The latter means that a third-party is able (note that it may not be the case) to log people who consult your website, and thus is a privacy issue.

So, at this step, you may have tried to extract images to serve it yourself, but the operation is only possible from a macOS system ('cause Apple emojis are present within the system font, and... gemoji is mainly using the "Apple's emoji character palette").

Now that is said, you have some options :

  • Buy an Apple device
  • Kindly ask a friend with an Apple device to extract and send you those PNGs (cc @Naernon)
  • Change your underneath emojis module / plugin / whatever
  • Wait for the gemoji project to use another set of emoji
  • Download PNGs directly from GitHub, and that is definitely what this is about !

Dependencies

  • python3
  • python3-requests

Installation

Manually

git clone https://github.com/HorlogeSkynet/SgEExt.git

Usage

python3 SgEExt.py --help

How does it work ?

The script... :

  • ... (after having tried locally) fetches the emojis database hosted on GitHub (don't click if you are on mobile)
  • ... iterates through the elements and extracts their unicode value as hexadecimal
  • ... uses the above result to download them from GitHub

Compatibility

Although SgEExt has been developed with cross-platform constraints, it has not been tested on Windows yet.
Feedbacks are welcome, as usual.

Apple users, you don't have to go this way.