EmojiHub provides an opportunity to get random emojis from already sorted categories and groups. You can also get a whole list of emojis by a certain category, group, or get the entire emoji database consisting of 1791 objects.

All emoji data is stored in a simple JSON object from which you can get html codes to insert into your web applications.

📄 API documentation

• Get random emoji

GET https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/random

{
    "name": "hugging face",
    "category": "smileys and people",
    "group": "face positive",
    "htmlCode": ["🤗"],
    "unicode": ["U+1F917"]
}

• Get an array of all emojis

GET https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/all

Each endpoint can be supplemented by a path to a specific category or group:

/category/{category-name}

/group/{group-name}

📚 Table with all available emoji categories and groups:

Category	Groups
smileys-and-people	body, cat-face, clothing, creature-face, emotion, face-negative, face-neutral, face-positive, face-positive, face-role, face-sick, family, monkey-face, person, person-activity, person-gesture, person-role, skin-tone
animals-and-nature	animal-amphibian, animal-bird, animal-bug, animal-mammal, animal-marine, animal-reptile, plant-flower, plant-other
food-and-drink	dishware, drink, food-asian, food-fruit, food-prepared, food-sweet, food-vegetable
travel-and-places	travel-and-places
activities	activities
objects	objects
symbols	symbols
flags	flags

🎯 Examples

https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/random/group/face-positive

https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/random/category/food-and-drink

https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/all/category/travel-and-places

https://emojihub.yurace.pro/api/all/group/animal-bird

🚀 Server startup

1. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/cheatsnake/emojihub.git

cd ./emojihub

2. Inside the project, run this command to install the necessary packages:

go mod download

Make sure you have already installed Go on your computer.

3. Start the server by running the last command:

go run cmd/main.go

The server will start at the address: http://localhost:4000

🐳 Docker container startup

Run the following commands to create an image and start the container:

docker build -t emojihub . --target production

docker run -p 4000:4000 --name emojihub-server emojihub