title: Translate unicode emojis to ascii emojis in Python
body: <p>Is there a way to translate unicode emojis to an appropriate ascii emoticon in Python? I know the <a href="https://pypi.org/project/emoji/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">emoji library</a>  which can be used to convert unicode emojis to something like :crying_face:. But what I would need is to convert it to :'(</p>
  
  <p>Is there an elegant way to do this without having to translate every possible emoji manually? Another option would be to convert the ascii emojis also to their textual representation, i.e. :'( should become :crying_face:.</p>
  
  <p>My intermediate goal is to find a way to transform ascii and unicode emojis to a common representation. My final goal would be to replace emoticons (no matter if unicode or ascii) by the emotion they represent (if they do not represent an emotion, remove them)</p>