call HTTP(s) from SQLcl and process the results.

sqlcl/examples/emojiWorldData.sql

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+drop table emoji
+/
+
+create table emoji ( keyword varchar2(30), emoji varchar2(200))
+/
+
+script
+// read text content from the given URL
+function readText(url) {
+    // Using JavaImporter to resolve classes
+    // from specified java packages within the
+    // 'with' statement below
+
+    with (new JavaImporter(java.io, java.net)) {
+        // more or less regular java code except for static types
+        var is = new URL(url).openStream();
+        try {
+            var reader = new BufferedReader(
+                new InputStreamReader(is));
+            var buf = '', line = null;
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                buf += line;
+            }
+        } finally {
+            reader.close();
+        }
+        return buf;
+    }
+}
+
+
+// get the remote URL
+var emoji = JSON.parse(readText('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muan/emoji/gh-pages/javascripts/emojilib/emojis.json'));
+var keys = Object.keys(emoji);
+
+ctx.write( "Got :" + keys.length + " emojis \n\n" )
+
+// process the JSON
+
+for (var key in emoji) {
+  //ctx.write(key + ">")
+  if ( emoji[key] && emoji[key].char ) {
+    //ctx.write( emoji[key].char )
+    var binds = {};
+        binds.keyword = key;
+        binds.emoji = emoji[key].char;
+        var ret = util.execute("insert into emoji(keyword,emoji) values(:keyword , :emoji)",binds);
+  }
+}
+ctx.write( "\n\n" )
+/
+select * from emoji order by keyword;
+/