APIs/Emoji

Emoji API

GET /emoji/{emoji}

Look up an emoji by character, shortcode, or exact name, or use ?q= for typeahead search in pickers.

Shortcodes work with or without colons. For editors, reactions, and anything that needs a reliable emoji record.

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Character, :shortcode:, or name. All three resolve to the same record.

3,944
emoji
9
categories
17
Unicode versions
3
lookup methods
$ curl "https://api.parseapi.com/emoji/rocket" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

// 200 ยท ~14ms ยท USA
{
  "emoji": "๐Ÿš€",
  "name": "rocket",
  "shortcodes": [":rocket:", "rocket"],
  "codepoints": ["U+1F680"],
  "hex": "1F680",
  "category": "Travel & Places",
  "status": "fully-qualified",
  "version": "0.6",
  "keywords": ["rocket", "space"],
  "skins": []
}

Response fields

emoji
Emoji character
name
Official name
shortcodes
Shortcodes with and without colons
codepoints
Unicode codepoints (U+โ€ฆ)
hex
Hex form
category
Category
status
Qualification status
version
Dataset version
keywords
Related keywords
skins
Skin-tone variants (when available)

SPEED

Fast from everywhere.

Median time for a /emoji response to reach a real city, first byte back, measured live from 16 cities. Not a lab benchmark. The whole trip.

US

14ms

EU

17ms

APAC

49ms

LatAm

18ms

ME

123ms

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