Emojibase Regex

Install the package.

yarn add emojibase-regex

Import and use the RegExp pattern.

import EMOJI_REGEX from 'emojibase-regex';
import EMOTICON_REGEX from 'emojibase-regex/emoticon';
import SHORTCODE_REGEX from 'emojibase-regex/shortcode';
import SHORTCODE_NATIVE_REGEX from 'emojibase-regex/shortcode-native';

`🏰`.match(EMOJI_REGEX);
':)'.match(EMOTICON_REGEX);
':castle:'.match(SHORTCODE_REGEX);
':гвинея:'.match(SHORTCODE_NATIVE_REGEX);

Documentation

https://emojibase.dev/docs/regex

Change Log

16.0.0

Major Changes

• e9b9a9a: Add vi (Vietnamese) language.
• d237386: Update to Emoji v16 and CLDR 46.
• d237386: Drop Node.js v16 support. Requires >= v18.12.

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See Conventional Commits for commit guidelines.

15.3.2 - 2024-06-09

🐞 Fixes

• Improve regex patterns. (#175) (f835b53), closes #175

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.3.1 (2024-06-03)

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.3.0 - 2023-12-03

🚀 Updates

• Support Emoji v15.1. (#164) (b2e0ec6), closes #164

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.2.0 - 2023-10-06

🚀 Updates

• Add hi (Hindi) language. (#165) (ada3784), closes #165

📘 Docs

• Update file sizes. (bb8b93a)

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.1.0 - 2023-10-03

🚀 Updates

• Add bn (Bengali) language. (#161) (84ea37c), closes #161

🛠 Internals

• Fix invalid dev dependency. (e81c4f1)

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.0.0 - 2023-06-11

🎉 Release

• Support emoji v15! (#146) (55286b1), closes #146

💥 Breaking

• Align emojibase version with spec. (614dda2)

📦 Dependencies

• [packemon] Update to v3. (ecc31da)

🛠 Internals

• Fix broken docs. (5eba8d0)
• Get website API build working. (0cb4284)
• Migrate from beemo to moon. (#144) (0607d6e), closes #144
• Update release script. (8dfdc16)

Note: Version bump only for package emojibase-regex

15.0.0 - 2023-06-10

🎉 Release

• Emojibase versions will now align with the emoji/unicode versions.
• Updated to Emoji 15 and Unicode 15.
  • 21 new emoji (31 including skin tones variations).
• Updated to CLDR 42.

6.0.1 - 2021-12-19

🛠 Internals

• Fixed spurious build issues.

6.0.0 - 2021-10-15

🎉 Release

• Updated to Emoji 14 and Unicode 14.
  • 37 new emoji (117 including skin tones variations).
  • Handshake now supports mixed skin tones.
• Updated to CLDR 40.

🚀 Updates

• Added uppercased versions of emoticons when applicable.
• Updated shortcode-native to handle Latin diacritics.
• Updated index to handle all qualified states of an emoji.

5.1.0 - 2020-01-07

🚀 Updates

• Updated to Emoji 13.1.

5.0.0 - 2020-09-11

💥 Breaking

• Updated patterns to now include regional indicators.

🚀 Updates

• Added a new pattern, shortcode-native, for matching against shortcode's in non-latin languages.

4.1.1 - 2020-08-05

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed some build issues.

4.1.0 - 2020-08-05

🚀 Updates

• Updated to CLDR 37.

4.0.1 - 2020-03-21

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed :) and <3 emoticons not rendering correctly.
• Updated :D emoticon to 😀.

4.0.0 - 2020-03-13

🎉 Release

• Updated to Emoji 13 and Unicode 13.
  • 67 new emoji (117 including skin tones variations).
  • New groups and subgroups.
• Updated to CLDR 36.1.
• Updated shortcodes.

3.2.0 - 2019-12-09

🚀 Updates

• Updated to Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1.
  • 23 new emoji (not including variants).
  • More gender-neutral options.
  • Red, blonde, and bald hair combinations.
• Added new emoji-loose and text-loose patterns.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where emojis without variation selectors were matching against the emoji and text patterns. If you relied on this functionality, use the new loose patterns.

3.1.0 - 2019-10-08

🚀 Updates

• Updated to CLDR 36.

3.0.1 - 2019-07-27

🛠 Internals

• [TS] Refined types. Replaced any with unknown.

3.0.0 - 2019-05-09

🎉 Release

• Updated to Emoji 12 and Unicode 12.
  • Multi-person support, including multi-gender and multi-skin tone.
  • 72 new emoji (230 including skin tones variations).
  • New groups and subgroups.
• Updated to CLDR 35.1.
• Updated shortcodes.

🛠 Internals

• [TS] Each regex file now has an individual declaration file.

2.0.0 - 2018-06-23

🎉 Release

• Updated to Emoji 11 and Unicode 11.
  • 77 new emoji (157 including skin tones variations).
  • 4 new components (bald, curly hair, red hair, white hair).
• Updated to CLDR 33.1.
  • Tons of new annotations and keywords.
• Updated shortcodes.

💥 Breaking

• Changed the Ogre emoticon from O) to >O).

1.1.1 - 2018-05-24

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed invalid index.d.ts declaration.

1.1.0 - 2018-05-22

🚀 Updates

• Updated to CLDR 33.

🛠 Internals

• Converted from Flow to TypeScript.

1.0.9 - 2017-11-10

🚀 Updates

• Updated to CLDR 32.

1.0.8 - 2017-10-11

🐞 Fixes

• Improved the accuracy of emoji and text presentation specific patterns.

1.0.7 - 2017-10-10

🐞 Fixes

• Emojis with newly added variation selectors will now properly match hexcodes without trailing FE0E/FE0F (their legacy variant).

1.0.6 - 2017-09-10

🛠 Internals

• Updated to Yarn workspaces.

1.0.5 - 2017-09-05

🛠 Internals

• Updated regex patterns.

1.0.4 - 2017-08-22

🐞 Fixes

• Added missing emoticons to emoticon regex.
• Removed unwanted emoticon permutations from emoticon regex.

1.0.3 - 2017-08-21

🛠 Internals

• Updated changelogs.

1.0.2 - 2017-08-19

🐞 Fixes

• Removed tests from distribution files.

1.0.1 - 2017-08-18

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed Flowtype definitions.

1.0.0 - 2017-08-17

🎉 Release

• Initial release!