# emoji-regex [![Build status](https://travis-ci.org/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex.svg?branch=main)](https://travis-ci.org/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex) _emoji-regex_ offers a regular expression to match all emoji symbols and sequences (including textual representations of emoji) as per the Unicode Standard. This repository contains a script that generates this regular expression based on [Unicode data](https://github.com/node-unicode/node-unicode-data). Because of this, the regular expression can easily be updated whenever new emoji are added to the Unicode standard. ## Installation Via [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): ```bash npm install emoji-regex ``` In [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/): ```js const emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex/RGI_Emoji.js'); // Note: because the regular expression has the global flag set, this module // exports a function that returns the regex rather than exporting the regular // expression itself, to make it impossible to (accidentally) mutate the // original regular expression. con