miyaku / blog

if you have your own fediverse server like gotosocial or mastodon, AND your own website or blog built with jekyll, maybe you’ve thought it would be neat to be able to use your custom emojis straight from jekyll. well here’s one way you can!

• download the custom_emojis.json for your instance (on GTS this currently requires a token with admin read scope): https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/custom_emojis/
• use a script to download the images locally to their shortcodes, here’s one i wrote in ruby: https://miyaku.media/downloads/masto-emojis-dl.rb
• install emoji_for_jekyll and point emoji-images-path at the emojis you just downloaded: https://github.com/yihangho/emoji-for-jekyll (won’t work with github pages auto-building sites, maybe you can figure out getting jemoji to work with this instead)
• now you can use emoji :shortcodes: anywhere in your jekyll site or blog and they’ll get turned into images with an .emoji CSS class!