GoMoji 🔥

A high-performance Go library for working with emojis in strings, offering fast emoji detection, manipulation, and information retrieval.
Table of Contents
Installation
Prerequisites
- Go 1.11 or higher (for module support)
Installing
go get -u github.com/forPelevin/gomoji
Features
- 🔎 Fast emoji detection in strings
- 👪 Find all emoji occurrences with detailed information
- 🌐 Access comprehensive emoji database
- 🧹 Remove emojis from strings
- ↔️ Replace emojis with custom characters
- ↕️ Custom emoji replacement functions
- 🧐 Detailed emoji information lookup
Usage Examples
Check for Emojis
package main
import "github.com/forPelevin/gomoji"
func main() {
hasEmoji := gomoji.ContainsEmoji("hello world 🤗")
println(hasEmoji) // true
}
Find All Emojis
emojis := gomoji.FindAll("🧖 hello 🦋 world")
// Returns slice of Emoji structs with detailed information
Remove Emojis
cleaned := gomoji.RemoveEmojis("🧖 hello 🦋 world")
println(cleaned) // "hello world"
Replace Emojis
// Replace with a specific character
replaced := gomoji.ReplaceEmojisWith("🧖 hello 🦋 world", '_')
println(replaced) // "_ hello _ world"
// Replace with custom function
customReplaced := gomoji.ReplaceEmojisWithFunc("🧖 hello 🦋 world", func(em Emoji) string {
return em.Slug
})
println(customReplaced) // "person-in-steamy-room hello butterfly world"
info, err := gomoji.GetInfo("🦋")
if err == nil {
println(info.Slug) // "butterfly"
println(info.UnicodeName) // "E3.0 butterfly"
println(info.Group) // "Animals & Nature"
}
API Documentation
Emoji Structure
type Emoji struct {
Slug string `json:"slug"` // Unique identifier
Character string `json:"character"` // The emoji character
UnicodeName string `json:"unicode_name"` // Official Unicode name
CodePoint string `json:"code_point"` // Unicode code point
Group string `json:"group"` // Emoji group category
SubGroup string `json:"sub_group"` // Emoji subgroup category
}
Core Functions
ContainsEmoji(s string) bool
- Checks if a string contains any emoji
FindAll(s string) []Emoji
- Finds all unique emojis in a string
RemoveEmojis(s string) string
- Removes all emojis from a string
ReplaceEmojisWith(s string, c rune) string
- Replaces emojis with a specified character
GetInfo(emoji string) (Emoji, error)
- Gets detailed information about an emoji
AllEmojis() []Emoji
- Returns all available emojis
GoMoji is designed for high performance, with parallel processing capabilities for optimal speed. Here are the key benchmarks:
Operation |
Sequential Performance |
Parallel Performance |
Allocations |
Contains Emoji |
57.49 ns/op |
7.167 ns/op |
0 B/op, 0 allocs/op |
Remove Emojis |
1454 ns/op |
201.4 ns/op |
68 B/op, 2 allocs/op |
Find All |
1494 ns/op |
313.8 ns/op |
288 B/op, 2 allocs/op |
Get Info |
8.591 ns/op |
1.139 ns/op |
0 B/op, 0 allocs/op |
Replace With Slug |
3822 ns/op |
602.4 ns/op |
160 B/op, 3 allocs/op |
Full benchmark details:
go test -bench=. -benchmem -v -run Benchmark ./...
goos: darwin
goarch: arm64
pkg: github.com/forPelevin/gomoji
cpu: Apple M1 Pro
BenchmarkContainsEmojiParallel-10 164229604 7.167 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkContainsEmoji-10 20967183 57.49 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkReplaceEmojisWithSlugParallel-10 2160638 602.4 ns/op 160 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkReplaceEmojisWithSlug-10 309879 3822 ns/op 160 B/op 3 allocs/op
BenchmarkRemoveEmojisParallel-10 5794255 201.4 ns/op 68 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkRemoveEmojis-10 830334 1454 ns/op 68 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkGetInfoParallel-10 989043939 1.139 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkGetInfo-10 139558108 8.591 ns/op 0 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkFindAllParallel-10 4029028 313.8 ns/op 288 B/op 2 allocs/op
BenchmarkFindAll-10 751990 1494 ns/op 288 B/op 2 allocs/op
Note: Benchmarks were performed on Apple M1 Pro processor. Your results may vary depending on hardware.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
Vlad Gukasov @vgukasov
License
GoMoji is available under the MIT License.
GoMoji source code is available under the MIT License.