A simple Emoji downloader for CLI

• Uses emojipedia to get the file
• Supports all the emojis including the variants/skin tones

Copy and paste emojidl.sh contents (or following snippet) into your .bashrc or .zshrc file. It's a simple function:

emojidl() {
curl -kLss "https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=$1" | grep "on Apple" | grep " 2x" | sed -n 's/.*<img src="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | xargs curl -O
}

• Makes a curl request to https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=<EMOJI>
• Finds the lines including "on Apple" text
• Finds "2x" ones
• Parses the line using sed to extract the src attribute
• Uses curl once again to download the extracted URL

Just write the emojidl <emoji> and it'll find and download the emoji.

$ emojidl 🚂

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 16940  100 16940    0     0  12233      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 9472

It's CC0.