emoj API is down

[Richienb]

http://emoji.getdango.com/api/emoji no longer goes anywhere. We might want to consider trying to get the offline predictions SDK.

[sindresorhus]

The API goes down sometimes. Hopefully, it will come back. I doubt we can do the SDK as it's paid.

[Richienb]

Unfortunately, this was not actually the first occasion in which the API went down. It has been consistently down for months.

[Richienb]

It seems that Dango has disappeared for good. The website no longer exists and the app is no longer on Google Play.

[sindresorhus]

Yeah... Seems we need to take out the API calls and rely only on the emoji lib dependency.

[Richienb]

For posterity:

In 2012, Toronto-based company Whirlscape was founded as a result of a Y Combinator W14 seed investment and others. It was co-founded by Will Walmsley (Linkedin) as CEO, Severin Smith (twitter) (Linkedin) as CPO and Xavier Snelgrove (twitter) (Linkedin) as CTO.

In 2013, the company published Minuum, an Android and iOS predictive keyboard app that aimed to predict the text and emojis that a user wanted to type.

In 2014, the company published Dango, an Android app that provided a emoji suggestions widget that appeared when the user input text. The app was removed from Google Play at some point between December 17, 2019 and June 10, 2021; and the website changed owners on May 27, 2021 after being down since at least December 2020 (according to the Wayback Machine).