Jekyll::Emoji

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jekyll-emoji'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jekyll-emoji

Add the following configuration to your _config.yml:

gems: ['jekyll-emoji']
emoji:
  format: emojione-svg # default html
  ascii: true # default false
  shortname: true # default true
  src: "/assets/imgs/emojis" # defaults to "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/#{ext}"

The following formats are supported: html, unicode, emojione-png, emojione-svg, and emojione-svg-embed.

The src attribute can only be used with emojione-png, emojione-svg, and emojione-svg-embed and can be used to point to a location of a set of emojis that are named the same way the EmojiOne images are, eg https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/#{ext}/#{unicode}.#{ext}. When using it with emojione-png or emojione-svg, the <img> src will point to images at this location.

For example, src: "/assets/images/emojis" will produce <img> tags similar to <img class="emojione" alt="🍺" src="/assets/imgs/emojis/1f37a.svg"> whilst src: "https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/svg" will produce <img> tags similar to <img class="emojione" alt="🍺" src="https://twemoji.maxcdn.com/svg/1f37a.svg"> using Twemoji's CDN-hosted images.

When used with emojione-svg-embed, the SVG in the file at this location will be embedded into your content.

For a list of all available shortnames and asciimojis (I hope I coined this, so I can be cool) you can consult the emoji.codes, Emoji One, and Emoji Cheat Sheet websites.

Elements matching the following (CSS selector) will be excluded from the emojification:

[data-no-emoji], [data-no-emojis],
.no-emoji, .no-emojis, .no_emoji, .no_emojis,
code, pre

There's also a Liquid filter called emojify. It accepts three parameters: format, ascii and shortname. The former is a String (see above) while the latter two are Boolean.

{{ ":kissing_heart: :heart: :stuck_out_tongue:" | emojify  }}

The emojify filter deteriorates performance a little under very specific conditions; it shouldn't be an issue, but in case you see performance degradation when generating the site—start with this.

The emojify filter will result in a drop in site generation performance if you specific a src that points to a URL as the content of each SVG will need to be downloaded from that location.

The emojify filter isn't aware of the context it's being called within.

<span class=".no-emoji">{{ string_with_emoji | emojify }}</span>

The content of string_with_emoji would be emojified, provided that there's no HTML inside string_with_emoji which would match the above CSS path.

When the emojify filter is used inside a markdown file (say, a blog post), and if format: 'html' is set, then the will convert all emoji-matching unicode codepoints—regardless of whether they're inside an element matching aforementioned blacklisting CSS selector—into HTML entities (using hex format &#xhhhh;).

This is due to the fact that HTML encoding is done in a post-processing step to simplify and speed up the implementation.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/omninonsense/jekyll-emoji. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The following parties deserve my gratitude:

• Emoji One for creating emojis that I actually like, as opposed to not mind.
• @YorickPeterse for introducing me to Oga. It was <3></3> at first sight!

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

If you use emojione-png, or emojione-svg, note that the artwork is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 International License and its use requires attribution. Details on the attribution and license can be found on emojione.com/licensing.