An emojipasta generator trained with the posts from /r/emojipasta!
- Emoji density is adjustable
- Can filter out inappropriate emojis
I generated the dataset by finding a bunch of examples of "emojipasta" online and then processing them with a very simple algorithm:
- Find all instances of emoji (or groups of emoji) with a regex.
- For each emoji string, grab the word that came before it
- Build a nested dict in the form
{<word> -> {<emoji string> -> <frequency>}}
Then I dumped that data into emoji-data.json.
When the user converts some text, we do the following:
- split the input string into words
- for each word, decide if we should add emoji to it based on a random number and the emoji density chosen by the user
- if we're adding emoji to the word, choose a random emoji string that is associated with that word in the dataset, where the probability of choosing a given emoji string is determined by its frequency value.
- combine all the strings and show the user
To run locally, install dependencies with yarn and then run the dev server with yarn start.