How to detect emoji using javascript

Question

I need help for how to detect if an input contains a Japanese emoji/emoticon.

Currently my character set is charset=utf-8. On inputting text, the user can enter Japanese characters/alpanumerics/symbols but if they insert an emoji, onsubmit JavaScript will check if there is an emoji, error message will display.

I can't get this to work because I have no idea on how to detect an emoji in JavaScript?

Nino Filiu · Answer 1 · 2021-08-05T08:20:26.577

The answers might work but are terrible because they rely on unicode ranges that are unreadable and somewhat "magic" because it's not always clear where do they come from and why they work, not to mention they're not resilient to new emojis being added to the spec.

Major browsers now support unicode property escape which allows for matching emojis based on their belonging in the Emoji unicode category: \p{Emoji} matches an emoji, \P{Emoji} matches a non-emoji.

Note that officially, 0123456789#* and other characters are emojis too, so the property escape you might want to use is not Emoji but rather Extended_Pictographic which denotes all the characters typically understood as emojis!

Make sure to include the u flag at the end.

console.log(
  /\p{Emoji}/u.test('flowers'), // false :)
  /\p{Emoji}/u.test('flowers '), // true :)
  /\p{Emoji}/u.test('flowers 123'), // true :( 
)
console.log(
  /\p{Extended_Pictographic}/u.test('flowers'), // false :)
  /\p{Extended_Pictographic}/u.test('flowers '), // true :)
  /\p{Extended_Pictographic}/u.test('flowers 123'), // false :)
)

This works fine for detecting emojis, but if you want to use the same regex to extract them, you might be surprised with its behavior, since some emojis that appear as one character are actually several characters. They're what we call emoji sequences, more about them in this question

const regex = /\p{Extended_Pictographic}/ug
const family = '‍‍' // "family 
console.log(family.length) // not 1, but 8!
console.log(regex.test(family)) // true, as expected
console.log(family.match(regex)) // not [family], but [man, woman, girl]

This should be accepted answer. All other regexes aren't really maintainable. — jtompl, Oct 05 '20 at 10:53
The Emoji class seems to match numbers as well. Try this: `/^\p{Emoji}*$/u.test("123")` A fix for that would be this regexp: `/(?=\p{Emoji})(?!\p{Number})/u` — Bronzdragon, Oct 15 '20 at 16:45
Ah, thanks @Bronzdragon ! The issue is more complex, I asked [another question on the subject](https://stackoverflow.com/q/64389323/8186898) and mentionned your fix, and updated the above answer, because your fix doesn't handle `*` and `#` being emojis too — Nino Filiu, Oct 16 '20 at 13:57
This *is* a nice simple answer, but be warned it does not interpret multi-part emoji as you might expect. eg: `'‍‍'.match(/\p{Extended_Pictographic}/ug) -> ["","",""]` — SimplGy, Jul 11 '21 at 22:32
@SimplGy thanks for catching that gotcha! I edited my answer accordingly. — Nino Filiu, Aug 05 '21 at 08:20

score 35 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 15 '19 at 20:53

You can use the following regex:

/(?:[\u2700-\u27bf]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff]|[\u0023-\u0039]\ufe0f?\u20e3|\u3299|\u3297|\u303d|\u3030|\u24c2|\ud83c[\udd70-\udd71]|\ud83c[\udd7e-\udd7f]|\ud83c\udd8e|\ud83c[\udd91-\udd9a]|\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]|\ud83c[\ude01-\ude02]|\ud83c\ude1a|\ud83c\ude2f|\ud83c[\ude32-\ude3a]|\ud83c[\ude50-\ude51]|\u203c|\u2049|[\u25aa-\u25ab]|\u25b6|\u25c0|[\u25fb-\u25fe]|\u00a9|\u00ae|\u2122|\u2139|\ud83c\udc04|[\u2600-\u26FF]|\u2b05|\u2b06|\u2b07|\u2b1b|\u2b1c|\u2b50|\u2b55|\u231a|\u231b|\u2328|\u23cf|[\u23e9-\u23f3]|[\u23f8-\u23fa]|\ud83c\udccf|\u2934|\u2935|[\u2190-\u21ff])/g

If you just want to remove it from the string, you can do something like this.

function removeEmojis (string) {
  var regex = /(?:[\u2700-\u27bf]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff]|[\u0023-\u0039]\ufe0f?\u20e3|\u3299|\u3297|\u303d|\u3030|\u24c2|\ud83c[\udd70-\udd71]|\ud83c[\udd7e-\udd7f]|\ud83c\udd8e|\ud83c[\udd91-\udd9a]|\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]|\ud83c[\ude01-\ude02]|\ud83c\ude1a|\ud83c\ude2f|\ud83c[\ude32-\ude3a]|\ud83c[\ude50-\ude51]|\u203c|\u2049|[\u25aa-\u25ab]|\u25b6|\u25c0|[\u25fb-\u25fe]|\u00a9|\u00ae|\u2122|\u2139|\ud83c\udc04|[\u2600-\u26FF]|\u2b05|\u2b06|\u2b07|\u2b1b|\u2b1c|\u2b50|\u2b55|\u231a|\u231b|\u2328|\u23cf|[\u23e9-\u23f3]|[\u23f8-\u23fa]|\ud83c\udccf|\u2934|\u2935|[\u2190-\u21ff])/g;

  return string.replace(regex, '');
}

Great answer for me. However a mistake in the regex causes this to also match right brackets ([). Looks like just a mistake from copying and pasting code, but Lucas please fix. Fixed regex here: https://pastebin.com/0VZZKfWf — Marc Guiselin, May 31 '17 at 01:31
@JamieStreet did you already try it? If it isn't working probably the regex, unfortunately, needs to be adjusted — lucas, Nov 03 '17 at 14:51
+1. And I wonder if it might benefit from being updated like the regex at https://stackoverflow.com/a/20208095/470749 — Ryan, Sep 10 '18 at 23:33
It's working with all the emojis listed here: https://getemoji.com/ — lucas, Feb 08 '21 at 09:46

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '18 at 18:16

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You can use a regular expression from this lib emoji-regex

answered Jun 09 '18 at 18:16

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score 13 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 15 '20 at 12:49

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A simple function that returns true if your string contains one or more emojis.

function isEmoji(str) {
    var ranges = [
        '(?:[\u2700-\u27bf]|(?:\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]){2}|[\ud800-\udbff][\udc00-\udfff]|[\u0023-\u0039]\ufe0f?\u20e3|\u3299|\u3297|\u303d|\u3030|\u24c2|\ud83c[\udd70-\udd71]|\ud83c[\udd7e-\udd7f]|\ud83c\udd8e|\ud83c[\udd91-\udd9a]|\ud83c[\udde6-\uddff]|[\ud83c[\ude01-\ude02]|\ud83c\ude1a|\ud83c\ude2f|[\ud83c[\ude32-\ude3a]|[\ud83c[\ude50-\ude51]|\u203c|\u2049|[\u25aa-\u25ab]|\u25b6|\u25c0|[\u25fb-\u25fe]|\u00a9|\u00ae|\u2122|\u2139|\ud83c\udc04|[\u2600-\u26FF]|\u2b05|\u2b06|\u2b07|\u2b1b|\u2b1c|\u2b50|\u2b55|\u231a|\u231b|\u2328|\u23cf|[\u23e9-\u23f3]|[\u23f8-\u23fa]|\ud83c\udccf|\u2934|\u2935|[\u2190-\u21ff])' // U+1F680 to U+1F6FF
    ];
    if (str.match(ranges.join('|'))) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

edited Jan 15 '20 at 12:49

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Doesn't match ✈️, ❤️ and – dsaket May 09 '18 at 10:09
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How could we detect if the string really is really only ONE emoji? This returns true if the string contains emojis – RTYX May 06 '19 at 15:09
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A function that contains a regex that is 198 characters long is not *"a simple function"* – Nino Filiu Oct 05 '20 at 13:15

score 8 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 29 '15 at 21:09

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We can detect all list of surrogate pairs or the Emoji characters in a specific range. If the issue related with storing the input string to database like MySQL version before 5.5 we need to detect and remove all the surrogate pairs using the below regex

/([\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF])/g.

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it doesn't match ⚱️ and ⚰️ – ljh131 Sep 05 '17 at 05:46

Wiktor Stribiżew · Answer 6 · 2021-09-09T09:05:18.430

First of all, you cannot rely on ECMAScript 2018+ compliant \p{Emoji} (at least at the time of writing). It really matches some 0123456789#* non-emoji chars (see Nino Filiu's answer). See Why do Unicode emoji property escapes match numbers? for more details.

To test if there are any emoji chars in a string in JavaScript, you can use the following ECMAScript 2018+ compliant solution (mind the u flag):

const regex_emoji = /[\p{Extended_Pictographic}\u{1F3FB}-\u{1F3FF}\u{1F9B0}-\u{1F9B3}]/u;
console.log( regex_emoji.test('flowers 123') );     // => false
console.log( regex_emoji.test('flowers ') ); // => true

You can even extract one or more emoji char sequences using this pattern (note the added g flag to find all occurrences and + to match one or more consecutive occurrences of the character class pattern):

const regex_emoji = /[\p{Extended_Pictographic}\u{1F3FB}-\u{1F3FF}\u{1F9B0}-\u{1F9B3}]+/gu;
console.log( 'flowers 123'.match(regex_emoji) );     // => null
console.log( 'flowers '.match(regex_emoji) ); // => [ "" ]

In a nutshell, the Extended_Pictographic Unicode category class matches most emoji chars except for some Emoji_Components, that is, light skin to dark skin mode chars (\u{1F3FB}-\u{1F3FF}) and red-haired to white-haired chars (\u{1F9B0}-\u{1F9B3}).

To count, or extract emojis as an array of single chars or consecutive sequences (like in the second code snippet from above) from longer texts and perform other actions on emojis, you can use a custom regex (like in Scott Weaver's answer). It is safer to use the longer, escaped version. However, there are 4590 emoji characters defined in the Emoji Keyboard/Display Test Data for UTR #51 (Version: 13.1) file. Thus, the (ES5 compliant, works even in IE) regex to match a single emoji char is

var EmojiPattern = 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See the regex demo. The g flag at the end means this regex can match all occurrences in the input string.

The pattern is created dynamically from the list of emojis and contracted using a regex trie.

Here is the ES6+ compliant single emoji pattern (that allows \u{XXXXX} notation), but it is somewhat longer.

See this JavaScript demo:

var text = 'flowers ';
// Detecting if there is at least one emoji
console.log( emoji_detection_regex.test(text) );             // => true
// Counting emojis
console.log( (text.match(emoji_count_regex) || []).length ); // => 3
// Extracting one by one, single emoji array
console.log( text.match(emoji_count_regex) );                // => ["","",""]
// Extracting emoji sequences
console.log( text.match(emoji_extract_or_remove_regex) );    // => [""]
// Removing emojis
console.log( text.replace(emoji_extract_or_remove_regex, '') ); // => 'flowers '

<script src="https://gitcdn.link/repo/stribizhev/Emojis/main/ws_emoji_regex.js"></script>

The emoji regex declarations are available in the https://github.com/stribizhev/Emojis/blob/main/ws_emoji_regex.js file.

Scott Weaver · Answer 7 · 2022-03-24T17:58:19.547

Update for 2020: Many of these patterns don't match compound emojis or Modifier Sequences correctly, or are simply outdated and do not match the newer emojis.

Consider this kissing couple: ‍❤️‍‍. It's actually 6 (maybe more) other emojis glued together with the ZWJ zero-width joiner. To match this correctly, you have to actually match that sequence.

Thus, by matching the longer sequences first, this brute-force pattern ~~(too long too paste, but it's a simple alternation and runs fast)~~ correctly parses all 3521 combined emojis as of May 2021:

GitHub link: https://github.com/sweaver2112/Regex-combined-emojis

Edit 5/10/2021: If the size of this regex is off-putting to you, you could actually skip the Unicode escape sequences and just use literal emojis, thereby saving tons of space...well, almost. This character, "*️⃣", which starts with an asterisk, will throw a "nothing to quantify" error. Getting rid of just this guy yields a much shorter, still working, copy/pastable regex that matches 3,520/3,521 Emojis at the present date:

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Regex 101 Demo (compact, unsafe literal emoji version)

Regex 101 Demo (long, safe unicode escape version)

The demos' input string includes all characters from

Working example (links directly to the regex file):

/*compile the pattern string into a regex*/
let emoRegex = new RegExp(emojiPattern, "g")

/*extracting the emojis*/
let emojis = [..."This ‍⚖️is the ‍♀️text‍❤️‍‍.".matchAll(emoRegex)];
console.log(emojis)

/*count of emojis*/
let emoCount = [..."This ‍⚖️is the ‍♀️text‍❤️‍‍.".matchAll(emoRegex)].length
console.log(emoCount)

/*strip emojis from text*/
let stripped = "This ‍⚖️is the ‍♀️text‍❤️‍‍.".replaceAll(emoRegex, "")
console.log(stripped)

/*use the pattern string to build a custom regex*/
let customRegex = new RegExp(".*"+emojiPattern+"{3}$") //match a string ending in 3 emojis
console.log(customRegex.test("yep three here ‍⚖️‍❤️‍‍")) //true
console.log(customRegex.test("nope ‍❤️‍‍")) //false

<script src="https://assets.codepen.io/1197275/emojiRegex.js"></script>

`Internal Server Error` https://gitcdn.link/repo/sweaver2112/Regex-combined-emojis/master/regex.js — xgqfrms, Mar 24 '22 at 17:42

score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 02:50

4

You can use regular expression to detect it in input text:

/([\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDDFF])/g

answered Sep 18 '13 at 02:50

andorx

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1
6

3

does not match all emojis `/^([\uE000-\uF8FF]|\uD83C[\uDF00-\uDFFF]|\uD83D[\uDC00-\uDDFF])+$/.test("") // false` – sritmak May 24 '17 at 13:18

score 4 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 23 '20 at 05:42

I wrote the following function: containsEmojis(input, includeBasic=true), which checks an input string for emojis according to the list of emojis defined in the Unicode specification version 13 (see https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.0/emoji-sequences.txt), and allows to ignore "basic" emojis that can be represented with only 3 bytes.

The snippet below defines the function and runs a few test cases:

/**
* iterates over the code points of an input string and returns true if an emoji is found.
* 
* an emoji is found if the hex code for the character is 5 characters starting with "1F",
* or if @includeBasic is true, the character is 4 and starts with one of the prefixes of
* a basic emoji as defined in the Unicode specification version 13 
* see https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/13.0/emoji-sequences.txt
* 
* @input the string to check
* @includeBasic include also the basic emojis that only take 3 characters
*/
function containsEmojis(input, includeBasic) {

    if (typeof includeBasic == "undefined")
        includeBasic = true;

    for (var c of input) {
        var cHex = ("" + c).codePointAt(0).toString(16);
        var lHex = cHex.length;
        if (lHex > 3) {

            var prefix = cHex.substring(0, 2);

            if (lHex == 5 && prefix == "1f") {
                return true;
            }

            if (includeBasic && lHex == 4) {
                if (["20", "21", "23", "24", "25", "26", "27", "2B", "29", "30", "32"].indexOf(prefix) > -1)
                    return true;
            }
        }
    }

    return false;
}


// can be tested as follows:
var input;
input = "Hello World!";
console.log(input, containsEmojis(input));

input = "Hello !";
console.log(input, containsEmojis(input));

console.log(input, containsEmojis(input, false));

// now try a basic emoji
input = "It sparkles ✨ yay!";
console.log(input, containsEmojis(input));

// pass false for includeBasic
console.log(input, containsEmojis(input, false));

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 23 '22 at 14:46

1

another solution I found that worked for me:

const example = '‍‍‍';
const regexpEmojiPresentation = /\p{Emoji_Presentation}/gu;
console.log(example.match(regexpEmojiPresentation));

answered Mar 23 '22 at 14:46

Ruti Popilov

11
1

This answer could be improved by adding a link to the documentation, why this works and how to use it. – Ingo Steinke Mar 25 '22 at 12:53

score -1 · Answer 11 · answered Jul 07 '19 at 08:10

-1

check the emoji like bellow ways

function getEmojiChars(text) {

console.log(text.match(/\ud83c[\udf00-\udfff]|\ud83d[\udc00-\ude4f]|\ud83d[\ude80-\udeff]/g))  ;
}

you will get the array of emoji in the text

answered Jul 07 '19 at 08:10

Debashis Chowdhury

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This is not gonna work for most of emojis. – Ryszard Czech Oct 25 '21 at 21:24

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