#Library of Emoji
This repository contains a Python program, generate.py, which I made to
generate the speculative emoji names seen on
@libraryofemoji. Also included are several
data files containing large numbers of lemmas from
WordNet, categorized by part of speech. (These
lemmas are drawn from randomly to fill the structural backbone generated by
generate.py).
If you'd like to turn the output of this program (or similar output), into a Twitter bot, I recommend everywordbot, which is a Python program I wrote to tweet, in succession, lines from a text file.
##Requirements
You'll need Python, of course, and you'll also need
Pattern, which you can install with pip
like so:
$ pip install pattern
(Pattern is only used for its pluralize function.)
##Usage
After installing the required libraries, run the Python script from the command-line like so:
$ python generate.py | more
The | more is important, since the script will print an infinite number of
randomly generated emoji names to standard output until you hit ^C. You can
generate a particular number of emoji names using head:
$ python generate.py | head -1000 >emoji_names.txt
Note: For @libraryofemoji, I filtered the results of running this script with Darius Kazemi's wordfilter (which is also available for Python as part of Leonard Richardson's olipy library), in order to remove anything obviously unseemly. You might want to do the same!
##License
The (MIT) license for the Python code is included in LICENSE. A different
license covers the text files from WordNet; that license is included as
LICENSE_wordnet.