Rofi emoji picker

rofi-emoji.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
#   Use rofi to pick emoji because that's what this
#   century is about apparently...
#
#   Requirements:
#     rofi, xsel, curl, xmllint
#
#   Usage:
#     1. Download all emoji
#        $ rofi-emoji --download
#
#     2. Run rofi
#        $ rofi-emoji
#

# Where to save the emojis file.
EMOJI_FILE="$HOME/.cache/emojis.txt"

# Urls of emoji to download.
# You can remove what you don't need.
URLS=(
    'https://emojipedia.org/people/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/nature/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/food-drink/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/activity/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/travel-places/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/objects/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/symbols/'
    'https://emojipedia.org/flags/'
)


function download() {
    echo "" > "$EMOJI_FILE"

    for url in "${URLS[@]}"; do
        echo "Downloading: $url"

        # Download the list of emoji and remove all the junk around it
        emojis=$(curl -s "$url" | \
                 xmllint --html \
                         --xpath '//ul[@class="emoji-list"]' - 2>/dev/null)

        # Get rid of starting/closing ul tags
        emojis=$(echo "$emojis" | head -n -1 | tail -n +1)

        # Extract the emoji and its description
        emojis=$(echo "$emojis" | \
                 sed -rn 's/.*<span class="emoji">(.*)<\/span> (.*)<\/a><\/li>/\1 \2/p')

        echo "$emojis" >> "$EMOJI_FILE"
    done
}


function display() {
    emoji=$(cat "$EMOJI_FILE" | grep -v '#' | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$')
    line=$(echo "$emoji" | rofi -dmenu -i -p 'emoji: ' $@)

    line=($line)

    echo -n "${line[0]}" | xsel -i -b
}


if [[ "$1" =~ -D|--download ]]; then
    download
    exit 0
elif [[ "$1" =~ -h|--help ]]; then
    echo "usage: $0 [-D|--download]"
    exit 0
fi

display