The emoji should appear in your browser window.ħ. Paste the URL into a browser address bar and click the Return key to load the link.Ħ. Select and copy the image URL in the block of text.ĥ. Paste the block into a convenient text editor.Ĥ. Use Copy under the Edit menu to copy the selected block.ģ. The Safari web inspector will open and display a block of selected text. Right click on the emoji image and select Inspect Element.Ģ. Once you have found the emoji you want to download, use the procedure below to download it:ġ. Once the Develop menu is available, go to your Slack team’s list of custom emoji. Click the Show Develop in menu bar option. Under the Safari menu, select Preferences…Ĥ. To download emoji using Safari, you’ll first need to enable Safari’s ability to examine webpage elements:Ģ.

Fortunately, there’s a relatively straightforward way to do that using Safari.

While there are solutions to moving emoji en masse, I usually just want to selectively download emojis as I see them. For example, one of my favorites on the MacAdmins Slack instance is :headdesk:, represented by this animated emoji. While Slack themselves provide a stock set of emoji for all Slack instances, custom emoji can help you express yourself better. Thanks to participating in multiple Slack instances, I’ve been in the position more than once where I’ve wanted specific emoji available in one Slack to also be available in another Slack instance.

Slack custom emoji