A Python script to check if a character is or a text contains emoji

is_emoji.py

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
# pip install emoji

import emoji


def char_is_emoji(character):
    return character in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI


def text_has_emoji(text):
    for character in text:
        if character in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI:
            return True
    return False


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(char_is_emoji(u'\u2764'))
    print(text_has_emoji(u'I \u2764 emoji'))

This should get you a list of all the emojis in the text:

[c for c in string if char_is_emoji(c)]

Below works fine for me;

has_emoji = bool(emoji.get_emoji_regexp().search(text))

Your Code was very helpfull, thanks a lot !

@bertdida +1 for simple and fast solution.

@bertdida working well thanks 👍 👍 👍

I got an error using "UNICODE_EMOJI", i fixed it using "EMOJI_DATA" instead :)
It seems like the property UNICODE_EMOJI was removed in version 2.0.0 of emoji module.

@claram97 thank you, EMOJI_DATA is the proper replacement for UNICODE_EMOJI