import json, os, urllib emoji_list = json.load(urllib.urlopen( 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iamcal/emoji-data/master/emoji.json' )) dictionary = {} for emoji in emoji_list: character = ''.join([unichr(int(nibble, 16)) for nibble in emoji['unified'].split('-')]) name = emoji['name'].replace(' ', '_') if emoji['name'] else emoji['short_name'].upper().replace('-', '_') dictionary[character] = ' [%s] ' % (name) json.dump(dictionary, file(os.path.join( os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), '../config/emoji.json' ), 'w'))