andrewn/emoji-describe

Replace emoji in strings with a description

emoji-describe

Replaces emoji characters in strings with their names.

For example:

const replaceInString = require('emoji-describe');
replaceInString("I hope this works 🤞");
// Returns:
//   "I hope this works hand with index and middle fingers crossed"

It handles skin tone variants using the same language as Apple's excellent accessibility.

Install

npm install --save emoji-describe

Development

The data is fetched from iamcal/emoji-data and processed into a simple emoji -> description lookup.

To fetch and transform the latest data:

git clone <repo>
cd emoji-name
npm install
npm run build