Twemoji by Twitter

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Library and graphics set for rendering standard Unicode emoji as images (PNG and SVG) across platforms.

Emoji Open source

Is Twemoji free for commercial use? Yes with conditions →

Website License

Price

Free

Free to use and download under open-source licenses

Commercial use

With conditions

MIT (code), CC-BY 4.0 (graphics)

Credit the author

Required

Credit required

Agent access

Package (npm/PyPI)

Twemoji popularity

Gid Score

46 /100

same scale as developer tools

GitHub stars

17.8K

1,896 forks · twitter/twemoji

Downloads

124K

npm, last 7 days, twemoji · +6.7% in 4 weeks

Twemoji: downloads per weeknpm, twemoji 123,565

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

Rules for your agent

- Twemoji (Emoji). Library and graphics set for rendering standard Unicode emoji as images (PNG and SVG) across platforms. Price: free; commercial use with conditions; credit required; ship inside your app with conditions.
  Connect: npm twemoji.
  Rule: Credit Twemoji/Twitter (graphics under CC-BY 4.0) in a README, About section, footer or the HTML/JS source.
  Rule: Keep the MIT license notice with any copies of the library code you distribute.
  Rule: Do not rely on the default MaxCDN base URL (shut down); download the assets or use another CDN such as unpkg.
  Rule: Use DOM parsing rather than string parsing, since string parsing does not sanitize input.
  License: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji (checked 2026-10-22; details: https://agentgid.com/assets/twitter-twemoji/)

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

License

License	MIT (code), CC-BY 4.0 (graphics)
Commercial use	Commercial use with conditions “to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software” github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/HEAD/LICENSE
Credit	Credit required “The graphics are licensed under the CC-BY 4.0” github.com/twitter/twemoji
Inside your app or game	Ship inside your app with conditions “In mobile applications, a common place would be in the Settings/About section” github.com/twitter/twemoji
AI training	Not stated
Bots and bulk downloads	Not stated
Rules	Credit Twemoji/Twitter (graphics under CC-BY 4.0) in a README, About section, footer or the HTML/JS source. Keep the MIT license notice with any copies of the library code you distribute. Do not rely on the default MaxCDN base URL (shut down); download the assets or use another CDN such as unpkg. Use DOM parsing rather than string parsing, since string parsing does not sanitize input.

Connect it to an agent

MCP server	None found
API	No public API: download by hand
npm	`npm install twemoji`
GitHub	twitter/twemoji

Pricing

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

Sources

Read on Oct 22, 2026: github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/HEAD/LICENSE, github.com/twitter/twemoji.

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

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