emoji-generator

Generate random emojis, because 🐼

Usage

// Installation
% go get -u github.com/mgmcintyre/emoji-generator

// Write a random emoji to ~/.emoji every 1 second
% emoji-generator run -s ./emoji.html -d ~/.emoji -i 1s

How it works

Reads the source file
Parses out unicode character references & stores them in memory
Runs a ticker based on the provided duration
On each tick, selects a random emoji and writes it to the destination file

Flags

--source the source (html) file to parse for emojis
--destination the destination file to write to
--interval the interval to tick on

Dependencies

Uses the fantastic github.com/urfave/cli library.

There's a copy of this HTML page in the repo: http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html

Want emojis in your prompt?

Use the provided .plist to launch emoji-generator at startup

% cp uk.co.mgmcintyre.emoji-generator ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Read the destination file into your prompt (e.g. from my ~/.bash_profile) bash

% PS1='[\t]\[\e[0m\]$(cat ~/.emoji) \[\e[36m\][\w]\[\e[0m\]\$ '
                    ^ where emojis come from

zsh

% PROMPT='%K{red}%F{white} %* %f%k%K{white}%S  $(cat ~/.emoji)  %s%k%K{blue} %~ %k %# '
                                               ^ where emojis come from

Contributing

Yes, please do.