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steppinghat/emoji-detector

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Detect and validate emoji in an input string

Last release 3 days ago
05 Oct 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 7 months
Most releases are documented
notes for 9 of 15 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
7 years old
15 releases · first in 2019

Release timeline

15 releases since 2019

20192020202120222023202420252026

Releases

1.11.05 Oct 2026
Use updated upstream endpoint for fetching emojis
What's Changed

Use updated upstream endpoint for fetching emojis

Unicode 18 support

Full Changelog: 1.10.0...1.11.0
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1.10.02 Feb 2026
Increased the minimum PHP version to 8.1
What's Changed

Add PHP 8.5 support

Increased the minimum PHP version to 8.1

Full Changelog: 1.9.0...1.10.0
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1.8.012 Mar 2025

Support for Unicode 16.0 characters

What's Changed

Support for Unicode 16.0 characters
Generate datasets directly from Unicode resources #19
Data is now sourced directly from Unicode when generating the local map. While testing every single emoji is not possible, there is test coverage that tests a distributed sample of emojis that continue to pass despite the provider change, making this safe for release.

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.8.0

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1.7.015 Dec 2024

This release adds PHP 8.4 to the test matrix and confirms support for PHP 8.4.

While PHP versions 7.4 and 8.0 are no longer supported, this library will continue to support them due to its simplicity at least until any issues arise.

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1.6.06 Sept 2024

Added a method called detectDistinct() that lists the first occurrence of every distinct emoji in a given string.

What's Changed

Added a method called detectDistinct() that lists the first occurrence of every distinct emoji in a given string.
Updated documentation to usher users to use caret versioning, since future Unicode updates are published as minor releases.

Full Changelog: 1.5.1...1.6.0

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1.5.11 Feb 2024

This release assures tests are run against PHP 8.3.

No bugfixes, features or updates to the Unicode version are included in this release.

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1.4.06 Sept 2024

Update to the Unicode 15.0 dataset by @SteppingHat in #9

What's Changed

Update to the Unicode 15.0 dataset by @SteppingHat in #9

Full Changelog: 1.3...1.4

⚠️ Unicode 15.0 has updated metadata for some emojis ⚠️

For example, the category for ❤️ changed from 'emotion' to 'heart'. This caused one of the tests to fail, which has been amended to reflect the new data.

Due to the nature of Unicode and how emoji data is managed, this will not be means for a major release.

The purpose of the tests are to ensure that this package works as intended, and not to validate the Unicode data itself. If there are any issues that arise, please report an issue.

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