Extract slack emoji

download.py

import json
import time
import requests

# Go to the add emoji page on the Slack website for your team
# ie. https://team.slack.com/customize/emoji
# Open the web console, go to the networking tab, find the request to emoji.adminList (it's an ajax request)
# Right-click -> copy as cURL
# Edit cURL command such that the pagination requests more emoji than your team has
# Save as emoji.json in same folder as this script 
# python3 download.py

data = json.load(open("emoji.json"))

emojis = data["emoji"]

for i, emoji in enumerate(emojis):
    name = emoji["name"]
    url = emoji["url"]
    print(f"Fetching emoji {i}/{len(emojis)}: {name}")
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()
    print(f"Writing {name}")
    ext = url.split(".")[-1]
    with open(f"emojis/{name}.{ext}", "wb") as fh:
        fh.write(response.content)

    time.sleep(0.2)