python - 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['en'])