removing emojis

main.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from random import choice
 from datetime import datetime
 from pytz import timezone
 from queue import Queue
+from utils.remove_unicode import emojis
 
 def load(variables) -> dict:
     """Load environment variables."""
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ class Listener(StreamListener):
                         tweet = status.text
                     # recovery of the last "usable" word of the tweet
                     regex = r"https?:\/\/\S+| +?\?|\?| +?\!| ?\!|-|~|(?<=ui)i+|@\S+|\.+|(?<=na)a+(?<!n)|(?<=quoi)i+|(?<=no)o+(?<!n)|…|\^+"
+                    regex += f"|{emojis()}"
                     tweetText = sub(regex, " ", tweet.lower())
                     lastWord = tweetText.split()[-1:][0]
                     if keys["VERBOSE"]:

utils/remove_unicode.py

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+from requests import get
+
+def emojis() -> str:
+    page = get("https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt")
+    lines = page.text.split("\n")
+
+    blacklist = [ # blacklist of element who are not really emojis
+        "number sign",
+        "digit zero..digit nine",
+        "copyright",
+        "registered",
+        "trade mark",
+        "information"
+    ]
+    
+    unicodes = []
+    extendedEmoji = {}
+    for line in lines: # check all lines
+        if not line.startswith("#") and len(line) > 0: # ignores comment lines and blank lines
+            if line.split(')')[1].strip() not in blacklist: # check if the emoji isn't in the blacklist
+                temp = f"{line.split(';')[0]}".strip() # recovery of the first column
+                if ".." in temp: # if it is a "list" of emojis, adding to a dict
+                    extendedEmoji[temp.split("..")[0]] = temp.split("..")[1]
+                else:
+                    unicodes.append(temp)
+    unicodes = list(set(unicodes) - {""}) # removal of duplicates and especially of extra spaces
+
+    def _uChar(string: str): # choice between \u and \U in addition of the "0" to complete the code
+        stringLen = len(string)
+        if stringLen > 7: # Can't be more than 7 anyways
+            raise Exception(f"{string} is too long! ({stringLen})")
+        u, totalLong = "U", 7 # Should be 7 characters long if it is a capital U
+        if stringLen < 4: # 4 characters long if smaller than 4
+            u, totalLong = "u", 4 # Should be 4 characters long if it is a lowercase u
+        resultat = ""
+        while len(f"{resultat}{string}") <= totalLong: # Adding the 0
+            resultat += "0"
+        return f"\{u}{resultat}" # Return the right "U" with the right number of 0
+
+    for i in range(0, len(unicodes)): # add unicode syntax to the list
+        unicodes[i] = f"{_uChar(unicodes[i])}{unicodes[i]}"
+    
+    for mot in extendedEmoji.items(): # add unicode syntax to the dict
+        extendedEmoji[mot[0]] = f"{_uChar(mot[1])}{mot[1]}"
+        temp = f"{_uChar(mot[0])}{mot[0]}-{extendedEmoji[mot[0]]}"
+        if temp not in unicodes: # if not already in the list
+            unicodes.append(temp) # add the item to the list
+
+    resultat = "["
+    for code in unicodes: # conversion of the list into a string with | to separate all the emojis
+        resultat += f"{code}|"
+
+    return f"{resultat[:-1]}]+"