Emoji picker API

Search by name or keyword, such as fire, party or thumbs up, or browse a category, then click an emoji to copy it. Every emoji here is from Emoji 15.1 or older, so it shows on current phones, and the ones you copy stay under Recently copied.

• Endpoint: POST https://postboost.co/app/api/tools/social-media-emoji-picker (operationId searchEmoji)
• Web tool: postboost.co/tools/social-media-emoji-picker
• Token: optional (limits)
• MCP: tool search-emoji on https://postboost.co/mcp/tools

Request

Field	Type	Default	Description
query	string	""	Words to look for in the emoji name and keywords, e.g. fire or party. Empty lists the category in Unicode order.
category	string: Smileys & Emotion, People & Body, Animals & Nature, Food & Drink, Travel & Places, Activities, Objects, Symbols, Flags		Only emoji of this Unicode category.
limit	integer	30

Call it

curl

curl -X POST https://postboost.co/app/api/tools/social-media-emoji-picker \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"fire","limit":2}'

Python

from postboost import ApiClient, Configuration
from postboost.api.free_tools_api import FreeToolsApi
from postboost.models import FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest

with ApiClient(Configuration()) as client:
    api = FreeToolsApi(client)
    result = api.search_emoji(FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest.from_dict({"query": "fire", "limit": 2}))
    print(result.to_dict())

Node.js

import { FreeToolsApi } from 'postboost';

const api = new FreeToolsApi();
const { body } = await api.searchEmoji({ query: "fire", limit: 2 });
console.log(body);

PHP

use PostBoostClient\Api\FreeToolsApi;
use PostBoostClient\Model\FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest;

$api = new FreeToolsApi(new GuzzleHttp\Client());
$result = $api->searchEmoji(new FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest(['query' => "fire", 'limit' => 2]));
echo $result;

Go

import (
    "context"
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"

    postboost "github.com/postboost-co/postboost-go"
)

var request postboost.FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"query":"fire","limit":2}`), &request); err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

client := postboost.NewAPIClient(postboost.NewConfiguration())
result, _, err := client.FreeToolsAPI.SearchEmoji(context.Background()).FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest(request).Execute()
fmt.Println(result, err)

Ruby

require 'postboost'

api = PostBoost::FreeToolsApi.new
result = api.search_emoji(PostBoost::FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest.new({ query: "fire", limit: 2 }))
puts result.to_hash

Java

import com.postboost.ApiClient;
import com.postboost.api.FreeToolsApi;
import com.postboost.model.FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest;
import com.postboost.model.FreeToolSearchEmojiResponse;

FreeToolsApi api = new FreeToolsApi(new ApiClient());
FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest request = FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest.fromJson("{\"query\":\"fire\",\"limit\":2}");
FreeToolSearchEmojiResponse result = api.searchEmoji(request);
System.out.println(result.toJson());

C#

using Newtonsoft.Json;
using PostBoost.Client.Api;
using PostBoost.Client.Client;
using PostBoost.Client.Model;

var api = new FreeToolsApi(new Configuration());
var request = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest>(@"{""query"":""fire"",""limit"":2}");
var result = await api.SearchEmojiAsync(request);
Console.WriteLine(result.ToJson());

Rust

use postboost::apis::configuration::Configuration;
use postboost::apis::free_tools_api;
use postboost::models::FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest;

let config = Configuration::new();
let request: FreeToolSearchEmojiRequest = serde_json::from_str(r##"{"query":"fire","limit":2}"##)?;
let result = free_tools_api::search_emoji(&config, request).await?;
println!("{:?}", result);

CLI

echo '{"query":"fire","limit":2}' | ./postboost-cli --content-type application/json searchEmoji -

With a token, send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN as a default header (how, per SDK).

Response

{
    "results": [
        {
            "emoji": "🔥",
            "name": "fire",
            "keywords": [
                "af",
                "burn",
                "flame",
                "hot",
                "lit",
                "litaf",
                "tool"
            ],
            "category": "Travel & Places",
            "unicode_version": "0.6"
        },
        {
            "emoji": "🎆",
            "name": "fireworks",
            "keywords": [
                "boom",
                "celebration",
                "entertainment",
                "yolo"
            ],
            "category": "Activities",
            "unicode_version": "0.6"
        }
    ],
    "total": 11
}

With MCP

Connect https://postboost.co/mcp/tools (setup) and ask, for example: Search emoji by name or keyword, to copy and paste into a post with the PostBoost search-emoji tool.

Errors

Status	When
401	The Authorization header holds an invalid token. Leave it out to call as a guest.
413	The JSON body is larger than 128 KB.
422	A field is invalid; the body lists the errors per field.
429	A limit is reached; see limits.