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# emoji-regex [](https://travis-ci.org/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex)
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_emoji-regex_ offers a regular expression to match all emoji symbols (including textual representations of emoji) as per the Unicode Standard.
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This repository contains a script that generates this regular expression based on [the data from Unicode Technical Report #51](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/unicode-tr51). Because of this, the regular expression can easily be updated whenever new emoji are added to the Unicode standard.
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## Installation
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Via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/):
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```bash
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npm install emoji-regex
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```
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In [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/):
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```js
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const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex');
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// Note: because the regular expression has the global flag set, this module
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// exports a function that returns the regex rather than exporting the regular
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// expression itself, to make it impossible to (accidentally) mutate the
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// original regular expression.
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const text = `
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\u{231A}: ⌚ default emoji presentation character (Emoji_Presentation)
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\u{2194}\u{FE0F}: ↔️ default text presentation character rendered as emoji
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\u{1F469}: 👩 emoji modifier base (Emoji_Modifier_Base)
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\u{1F469}\u{1F3FF}: 👩🏿 emoji modifier base followed by a modifier
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`;
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const regex = emojiRegex();
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let match;
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while (match = regex.exec(text)) {
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const emoji = match[0];
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console.log(`Matched sequence ${ emoji } — code points: ${ [...emoji].length }`);
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}
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```
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Console output:
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```
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Matched sequence ⌚ — code points: 1
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Matched sequence ⌚ — code points: 1
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Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2
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Matched sequence ↔️ — code points: 2
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Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1
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Matched sequence 👩 — code points: 1
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Matched sequence 👩🏿 — code points: 2
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Matched sequence 👩🏿 — code points: 2
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```
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To match emoji in their textual representation as well (i.e. emoji that are not `Emoji_Presentation` symbols and that aren’t forced to render as emoji by a variation selector), `require` the other regex:
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```js
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const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/text.js');
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```
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Additionally, in environments which support ES2015 Unicode escapes, you may `require` ES2015-style versions of the regexes:
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```js
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const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/es2015/index.js');
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const emojiRegexText = require('emoji-regex/es2015/text.js');
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```
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## Author
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| [](https://twitter.com/mathias "Follow @mathias on Twitter") |
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| [Mathias Bynens](https://mathiasbynens.be/) |
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## License
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_emoji-regex_ is available under the [MIT](https://mths.be/mit) license.
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