emoji-lookup 🕵‍♂

search emoji characters in the terminal, pure python stdlib with no dependencies 🙌

Usage:

1. clone this repo
2. run main.py with your search_query

python main.py skate 
>>:ice_skate: ⛸️
>>:skateboard: 🛹

To use only prefix match start your query with :

python main.py :skate 
>>:skateboard: 🛹

Which shortnames are used here?

I'm using GitHub's short names

Setup alias:

to use it everywhere in your terminal you can setup an alias in you bashrc or zshrc in the following format:

alias emoji='{path-to-your-python} {path-to-the-main.py}'

example:

emoji check
>>:heavy_check_mark: ✔️
>>:white_check_mark: ✅
>>:ballot_box_with_check: ☑️
>>:checkered_flag: 🏁
>>:check_box_with_check: ☑
>>:check_mark: ✔