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GET /v1/emoji

Lookup one emoji

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Custom headers (optional)
api.oanor.com/emoji-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/emoji-api/v1/emoji" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/emoji-api/v1/emoji", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/emoji-api/v1/emoji");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/emoji-api/v1/emoji",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "name": "rocket",
        "tags": [
            "ship",
            "launch"
        ],
        "emoji": "🚀",
        "aliases": [
            "rocket"
        ],
        "category": "Travel & Places",
        "codepoints": "U+1F680",
        "unicode_version": "6.0"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-30T18:16:51.273Z",
        "request_id": "079ab25b-0562-4028-812a-e771a9f75ce9"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Emoji retrieved",
    "success": true
}