Use custom emojis with GraphQL (FREE)

Introduced in GitLab 13.6

Deployed behind a feature flag, disabled by default.

Enabled on GitLab.com.

Recommended for production use.

To use in GitLab self-managed instances, ask a GitLab administrator to enable it. (FREE SELF)

This in-development feature might not be available for your use. There can be risks when enabling features still in development. Refer to this feature's version history for more details.

To use custom emoji in comments and descriptions, you can add them to a group using the GraphQL API.

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`group_path`	integer/string	{check-circle} Yes	ID or URL-encoded path of the group
`name`	string	{check-circle} Yes	Name of the custom emoji.
`file`	string	{check-circle} Yes	URL of the custom emoji image.

Create a custom emoji

mutation CreateCustomEmoji($groupPath: ID!) {
  createCustomEmoji(input: {groupPath: $groupPath, name: "party-parrot", file: "https://cultofthepartyparrot.com/parrots/hd/parrot.gif", external: true}) {
    clientMutationId
    name
    errors
  }
}

After adding custom emoji to the group, members can use it in the same way as other emoji in the comments.

Get custom emoji for a group

query GetCustomEmoji($groupPath: ID!) {
  group(fullPath: $groupPath) {
    id
    customEmoji {
      nodes {
        name
      }
    }
  }
}

Set up the GraphiQL explorer

This procedure presents a substantive example that you can copy and paste into GraphiQL explorer. GraphiQL explorer is available for:

GitLab.com users at https://gitlab.com/-/graphql-explorer.
Self-managed users at https://gitlab.example.com/-/graphql-explorer.

Copy the following code excerpt:

    query GetCustomEmoji {
      group(fullPath: "gitlab-org") {
        id
        customEmoji {
          nodes {
            name,
            url
          }
        }
      }
    }

Open the GraphiQL explorer tool.
Paste the query listed above into the left window of your GraphiQL explorer tool.
Click Play to get the result shown here:

For more information on:

GraphQL specific entities, such as Fragments and Interfaces, see the official GraphQL documentation.
Individual attributes, see the GraphQL API Resources.

Enable or disable custom emoji API (FREE SELF)

Custom emoji is under development but ready for production use. It is deployed behind a feature flag that is disabled by default. GitLab administrators with access to the GitLab Rails console can enable it.

To enable it:

Feature.enable(:custom_emoji)

To disable it:

Feature.disable(:custom_emoji)