How to extract all the emojis from text?

Question

Consider the following list:

a_list = ['🤔 🙈 me así, bla es se 😌 ds 💕👭👙']

How can I extract in a new list all the emojis inside a_list?:

new_lis = ['🤔 🙈 😌 💕 👭 👙']

I tried to use regex, but I do not have all the possible emojis encodings.

Answer 1

You can use the emoji library. You can check if a single codepoint is an emoji codepoint by checking if it is contained in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI.

import emoji

def extract_emojis(s):
  return ''.join(c for c in s if c in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI)