demojize.py

This script decodes emoji icons in an input file to emoji alias, e.g. 👍(\U0001F44D) => :thumbs_up_sign:.

Example

Input file: input.txt

demojize.py is cool! 👍👍👍

Run

python demojize.py input.txt

Output file: demojized_input.txt

demojize.py is cool! :thumbs_up_sign::thumbs_up_sign::thumbs_up_sign:

Requirements

• Python 2.7+
• emoji (from pip)

Usage

For a single file

python demojize.py /path/to/file

For multiple files in a directory (like batch)

ls -1 /path/to/file_dir/ | xargs python demojize.py /path/to/file_dir/