Getting all emojis directly from http://emoji.codes/ and formatted to use in https://github.com/mrowa44/emojify

emoji_scrap.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

def start_requests():
    urls = [
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=people',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=nature',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=food',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=activity',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=travel',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=objects',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=symbols',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=flags',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=diversity'
    ]

    print 'emojis=('
    for url in urls:
        req = requests.get(url)
        html = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
        parse(html, url.split('=')[1])
    print ')'

def parse(html, title):
    emoji_list = html.find(id='emoji-list')
    print '\n\t# category: ' + title + '\n'

    for emoji in emoji_list.find_all('tr'):
        code = u'\\U' + emoji.get('id').replace('-', '\\U')
        shortcode = emoji.select_one('span[class*=shortcode]').text

        if title == 'diversity':
            if 'tone1' in shortcode:
                print '\t[\"' +  shortcode.replace('_tone1', '') + \
                '\"]=\"\\' + (code.split('\\'))[1].split('\\')[0] + '\"'
        print '\t[\"' + shortcode + '\"]=\"' + code + '\"'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start_requests()

old_emoji_scrap.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

curr_index = 0

def start_requests():
    urls = [
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=people',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=nature',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=food',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=activity',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=travel',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=objects',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=symbols',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=flags',
        'http://emoji.codes/family?c=diversity'
    ]

    for url in urls:
        req = requests.get(url)
        html = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
        parse(html, url.split('=')[1])

def parse(html, title):
    emoji_list = html.find(id='emoji-list')
    print '# category: ' + title + '\n'

    for emoji in emoji_list.find_all('tr'):
        code = u'\\U' + emoji.get('id').replace('-', '\\U')
        shortcode = emoji.select_one('span[class*=shortcode]').text
        global curr_index

        if title == 'diversity':
            if 'tone1' in shortcode:
                print 'keys[' + str(curr_index) + ']=\'' +  shortcode.replace('_tone1', '') + '\'; values[' + str(curr_index) + ']=\'' + '\\' + (code.split('\\'))[1].split('\\')[0] + '\';'
                curr_index +=1
        print 'keys[' + str(curr_index) + ']=\'' +  shortcode + '\'; values[' + str(curr_index) + ']=\'' + code + '\';'
        curr_index += 1

    print '\n'

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start_requests()

• BeautifulSoup4 is required: pip install beautifulsoup4
• requests is required: pip install requests

If you want to redirect the output stream to a file you can simply do python emoji_scrap.py > list.txt