Wofi emoji picker

wofi-emoji.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#   Source: https://gist.github.com/NearHuscarl/5d366e1a3b788814bcbea62c1f66241d
#
#   Use wofi to pick emoji because that's what this
#   century is about apparently...
#   
#   Requirements:
#     wofi, wlroots based compositor 
#
#   Usage:
#     1. Download all emoji
#        $ wofi-emoji --download
#
#     2. Run it!
#        $ wofi-emoji
#
#   Notes:
#     * You'll need a emoji font like "Noto Emoji" or "EmojiOne".
#     * Confirming an item will automatically paste it WITHOUT
#       writing it to your clipboard.
#     * Ctrl+C will copy it to your clipboard WITHOUT pasting it.
#

# Where to save the emojis file.
EMOJI_FILE="$HOME/.cache/emojis.txt"

# Urls of emoji to download.
# You can remove what you don't need.
URLS=(
'https://emojipedia.org/people/'
'https://emojipedia.org/nature/'
'https://emojipedia.org/food-drink/'
'https://emojipedia.org/activity/'
'https://emojipedia.org/travel-places/'
'https://emojipedia.org/objects/'
'https://emojipedia.org/symbols/'
'https://emojipedia.org/flags/'
)


function notify() {
  if [ "$(command -v notify-send)" ]; then
    notify-send "$1" "$2"
  fi
}


function download() {
  notify "$(basename "$0")" 'Downloading all emoji for your pleasure'

  echo "" > "$EMOJI_FILE"

  for url in "${URLS[@]}"; do
    echo "Downloading: $url"

    # Download the list of emoji and remove all the junk around it
    emojis=$(curl -s "$url" | \
      xmllint --html \
      --xpath '//ul[@class="emoji-list"]' - 2>/dev/null)

    # Get rid of starting/closing ul tags
    emojis=$(echo "$emojis" | head -n -1 | tail -n +1)

    # Extract the emoji and its description
    emojis=$(echo "$emojis" | \
      sed -rn 's/.*<span class="emoji">(.*)<\/span> (.*)<\/a><\/li>/\1 \2/p')

    echo "$emojis" >> "$EMOJI_FILE"
  done

  notify "$(basename "$0")" "We're all set!"
}

function wofi_menu() { # {{{
  wofi -width 25 -lines 7 -dmenu -i -p 'emoji: ' \
    -kb-row-tab '' \
    -kb-row-select Tab \
    -kb-custom-1 Ctrl+c
}
# }}}

function repeat() { # {{{
  local rplc str="$1" count="$2"
  rplc="$(printf "%${count}s")"
  echo "${rplc// /"$str"}"
}
# }}}

function toclipboard() { # {{{
        wl-copy
}
# }}}

function display() {
  local emoji line exit_code quantifier

  emoji=$(cat "$EMOJI_FILE" | grep -v '#' | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$')
  line="$(echo "$emoji" | wofi_menu)"
  exit_code=$?

  line=($line)
  last=${line[${#line[@]}-1]}
  quantifier="${last:${#last}-1:1}"
  if [[ ! "$quantifier" =~ [0-9] ]]; then
    quantifier=1
  fi
  emoijs="$(repeat "${line[0]}" "$quantifier")"

  if [ $exit_code == 0 ]; then
    echo -n "$emoijs" | toclipboard
  elif [ $exit_code == 10 ]; then
    echo -n "$emoijs" | toclipboard
  fi
}


# Some simple argparsing
if [[ "$1" =~ -D|--download ]]; then
  download
  exit 0
elif [[ "$1" =~ -h|--help ]]; then
  echo "usage: $0 [-D|--download]"
  exit 0
fi

# Download all emoji if they don't exist yet
if [ ! -f "$EMOJI_FILE" ]; then
  download
fi

# display displays :)
display

Pasting the emoji directly in this doesn't work properly. I hacked together a solution using wtype, you can find it in my fork. I don't know how to suggest a revision here :)

Wow, I've been using it for a while and have just now realized that it wasn't properly respecting my wofi config (I set layer=overlay because of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/hyti1v/wofi_appears_under_full_screen_windows/), so I started tinkering and through some trial and error realized that it was because of the single hyphen parameters. -dmenu should be --dmenu and so one. After I fixed that it started properly appearing on top of fullscreen windows and I saw the proper sizing that you have originally intended for it. 😃

Edit: After digging a bit more into it I think that it was disrespecting the layer config because of the -dmenu flag being interpreted as the combination of -d, -m and so on, among which -n meant --normal-window.