demoji
Accurately remove and replace emojis in text strings
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. demoji is lightweight, dependency-free, actively maintained, and solves a real problem with high accuracy. It handles edge cases (multi-character sequences, skin tones, flags) correctly and works offline. Use it whenever you need to find, extract, or normalize emojis in text.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.10 or later (supports 3.10–3.14).
- Low friction: pure Python wheel with no runtime dependencies.
- Actively maintained, last commit 2026-07-12, with Unicode emoji data bundled at install time so no network calls are needed at runtime.
License · maintenance · safety
Apache-2.0 (permissive) — Apache-2.0 is permissive; you can use demoji freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.
last release 2026-04-19 (117 days) · last repo commit 2026-07-12 · 163 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 338,151 downloads/mo, #7,436 on PyPI
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pip install demoji
import demoji
text = "Great game! 🔥 🎉"
print(demoji.findall(text))
# {'🔥': 'fire', '🎉': 'party popper'}
print(demoji.replace_with_desc(text))
# Great game! :fire: :party popper:- Whether the bundled Unicode emoji data (version 16.0) can be updated independently of package releases.
- Performance characteristics when processing very large text blobs or documents with thousands of emojis.
What it is and what it does
demoji is a text-processing library that accurately identifies and manipulates emojis in strings. It bundles Unicode Consortium emoji data at install time, so it works offline and requires no network access at runtime. The package handles complex emoji sequences—like skin-tone modifiers, zero-width joiners, and flag combinations—by sorting emoji codes by length and using a greedy regex approach to match longer sequences before shorter ones.
You can use it to find all emojis in a string and get their descriptions, extract emojis as a list, replace them with plain text, or convert them to colon-delimited codes (like `:fire:` for 🔥). It also provides a command-line interface for batch processing files or stdin. The library is typed, actively maintained, and supports modern Python versions.
Use it for
- Clean user-generated content (tweets, comments, chat) by replacing emojis with text descriptions for downstream NLP or storage.
- Extract and catalog emojis from social media feeds or message logs to understand sentiment or trending symbols.
- Convert emoji-heavy text to plain ASCII for systems that don't render emoji or for accessibility.
- Validate or audit text fields in forms or databases to detect and flag emoji usage.
- Build emoji-aware text search or indexing by mapping emojis to their semantic descriptions.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
demoji is lightweight, dependency-free, actively maintained, and solves a real problem with high accuracy. It handles edge cases (multi-character sequences, skin tones, flags) correctly and works offline. Use it whenever you need to find, extract, or normalize emojis in text.
Install
demoji on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel with no runtime dependencies. Actively maintained, last commit 2026-07-12, with Unicode emoji data bundled at install time so no network calls are needed at runtime.
Requires Python 3.10 or later (supports 3.10–3.14).
License in practice
Apache-2.0 is permissive; you can use demoji freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.
Quickstart
pip install demoji
import demoji
text = "Great game! 🔥 🎉"
print(demoji.findall(text))
# {'🔥': 'fire', '🎉': 'party popper'}
print(demoji.replace_with_desc(text))
# Great game! :fire: :party popper:Verify before relying
- Whether the bundled Unicode emoji data (version 16.0) can be updated independently of package releases.
- Performance characteristics when processing very large text blobs or documents with thousands of emojis.
Package facts
| License | Apache-2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release <3.15,>=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 117 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 338,151 / month, #7,436 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: OnlyProgramming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPythonTopic :: Text ProcessingTopic :: Text Processing :: LinguisticTopic :: UtilitiesTyping :: Typed |
Evidence: demoji-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
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