EmojiHub vs Icons8

EmojiHub serves a database of 1,791 emoji sorted into categories and groups as plain JSON, with both the unicode character and an HTML code ready to embed for each entry. A live GET against the current gateway, emojihub.yurace.pro (the community-maintained successor to the original Heroku-hosted host named in its docs), returned genuine data with no key required and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes.

Icons8 lets any page embed one of its icons by simply writing an image URL — no signup, key, or client library needed — with free use requiring attribution and paid plans removing that requirement. A live GET against the real host, img.icons8.com, returned a genuine icon image while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes and reconfirming auth None.