Emojibase by Miles Johnson

agent.md for AI agents

Pre-generated, localized emoji JSON datasets and regex patterns built from Unicode emoji data files.

Emoji Open source

Is Emojibase free for commercial use? Yes →

Website License

Price

Free

Free and open source under the MIT license

Commercial use

Yes

MIT License

Credit the author

Not needed

No credit needed

Agent access

Package (npm/PyPI)

Emojibase popularity

Gid Score

34 /100

same scale as developer tools

GitHub stars

634

51 forks · milesj/emojibase

Downloads

1.3M

npm, last 7 days, emojibase · +37.3% in 4 weeks

Used in agent projects

emojibase in our scan

Emojibase: downloads per weeknpm, emojibase 1,258,395

Emojibase: GitHub starsmilesj/emojibase 634

Downloads from api.npmjs.org, stars and forks from GitHub, checked Oct 22, 2026. How the Gid Score is calculated.

Rules for your agent

- Emojibase (Emoji). Pre-generated, localized emoji JSON datasets and regex patterns built from Unicode emoji data files. Price: free; commercial use OK; no credit needed.
  Connect: npm emojibase.
  Get files: npm install emojibase (code) and emojibase-data (localized JSON datasets); data is also on jsDelivr as the emojibase-data package (json).
  Not allowed: Keep the MIT copyright and permission notice in all copies or substantial portions
  Rule: Keep the MIT license file and copyright notice with any copies or substantial portions you ship.
  Rule: Install the data from the npm package or GitHub repo rather than scraping.
  License: https://github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/HEAD/LICENSE (checked 2026-10-18; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/emojibase/)

Paste it into your prompt or AGENTS.md. It is built from the license and API terms below.

License

License	MIT License
Commercial use	Commercial use OK “to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software” github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
Credit	No credit needed “The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.” github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
Inside your app or game	Can ship inside your app “to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute” github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
AI training	Not stated
Bots and bulk downloads	Not stated
Rules	Keep the MIT license file and copyright notice with any copies or substantial portions you ship. Install the data from the npm package or GitHub repo rather than scraping.

Connect it to an agent

How an agent gets files	npm install emojibase (code) and emojibase-data (localized JSON datasets); data is also on jsDelivr as the emojibase-data package · no sign-in
File formats	json
Not allowed	Keep the MIT copyright and permission notice in all copies or substantial portions
MCP server	None found
API	No public API: download by hand
npm	`npm install emojibase`
In AI-agent projects	`emojibase` is in 1 of 4,828 JavaScript projects (0.0%) in our scan of repos set up for AI coding agents.
GitHub	milesj/emojibase

Pricing

Free	Free and open source under the MIT license
Paid from	—
Usage price	—
Good to know	Added automatically; license read from the official pages.

Sources

Read on Oct 18, 2026: github.com/milesj/emojibase/blob/HEAD/LICENSE, github.com/milesj/emojibase.

Not legal advice. Check the license page before you ship.

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