EmojiBot: Discord Nitro for The Rest of Us™️

EmojiBot is a Discord bot that tries to mimic Discord Nitro features, allowing users to have more than 50 emojis in one server, and giving them animated emojis. It's the closest thing to Discord Nitro without having to pay a dime.

Summary of features

• Virtually unlimited emoji slots in one server
• Animated emojis for everyone, not just Nitro users
• It actually looks like you sent the message with emojis, not the bot
• Sharing emojis with other servers
• Easy adding/removing/listing of emojis
• Auto completion by typing just the first few characters of the emoji
• Auto load your most used emojis onto your main server, and offload lesser used ones to a storage server (work in progress)

How it works

Expanding emoji slots

EmojiBot allows you to link "storage servers" to your own server, effectively adding 50 (or more if the server is boosted) extra emoji slots to your main server each time you add a storage server. It will store emojis on those storage servers, and find them when you want to use them.

Animated emojis

EmojiBot also allows you to use animated emojis, even if you don't have Nitro.

Replacing messages with emojis

Non-Nitro users cannot use emojis from other servers and no animated emojis at all. EmojiBot solves this problem by deleting any messages it sees with an emoji, e.g. :emoji:, and replacing it with a webhook message with the same profile picture, nickname and message content, except with all emojis replaced by their actual <:emoji:0123456789> emoji. This way it looks like the user sent that message including emojis from another storage server, apart from the "BOT" tag displayed next to the webhook's nickname.

Sharing emojis with other servers

EmojiBot allows you to share your emojis with other servers that also use EmojiBot. They can type emojibot follow <yourServerName>, after which EmojiBot will ask you if you want to allow them to see (but not edit) your emojis. If you accept, then that server will be able to use all emojis that you have access to. You can choose to stop them from sharing your server at any time, and so can they.

Adding new emojis and managing them

EmojiBot makes it easy to add new emojis, using a simple emojibot emoji add [url] <name> command, where the user can give a url/attachment of an image/gif, and a name. EmojiBot will automatically find a storage server with an empty emoji slot, resize the image if necessary (I am still in the process of adding support for gif resizing) and add the emoji to that server.

Viewing your available emojis is just as easy: emojibot emoji list will show you all the emojis that you can use in this server, divided into categories of where they came from (stored on this server, on a storage server, being shared with you from another server).

emojibot emoji show <name> will show one emoji, along with some useful data like where it's stored, how many times and how often is it used, etc.

emojibot emoji remove <name> will delete the specified emoji.

emojibot emoji zip will zip your emojis into a zip file and send it to you.

Auto completion

To make it easier to type emojis, EmojiBot does not require an exact match when typing emojis, e.g. :emoji:. It allows you to type the first few characters (e.g. :emo:, and then it will pick the closest matching emoji. To make it even easier to type, EmojiBot also supports ::emoji syntax, placing the two colons at the start instead of having to type one at the beginning and one at the end. It's a small difference, but on mobile it's just that split second faster.

Auto loading (work in progress)

Emojis from other servers don't show up in Discord's emoji auto completion UI. Still, it would be nice to able to auto complete emojis that are stored on your storage servers. By tracking how often you use each emoji, EmojiBot can make smart decisions about which emoji should be stored on a storage server (because it's not used that often), and which emoji should be stored on your main server (because it's used often, and therefore should appear in your auto completion UI). I am still testing this feature, and so it's not available to the public yet.