--- title: Add bitmoji sticker to canvas with JavaScript using the bitmoji kit slug: add-bitmoji-sticker-to-canvas-with-javascript-using-the-bitmoji-kit published_at: 2021-03-31 17:00:03 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:14:20 +0000 summary: description: Learn how to use the bitmoji kit sticker picker to add a bitmoji image to an HTML canvas with JavaScript. Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/video_automation Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjav_dev Feedback: https://forms.gle/Q31hhjJGsMrvY4mL6 It turns out there's a really excellent tool called TubeBuddy that already exists and does most of what I was planning to build. I've started using TubeBuddy in the past few months and really like it. If you use this link to buy a license, I'll get a small cut for being an affiliate: https://www.tubebuddy.com/cjavdev. tags: [Add bitmoji sticker to canvas with JavaScript using the bitmoji kit, bitmoji api, bitmoji kit, snap kit, snapchat, snapchat kit, snapchat bitmoji javascript, JavaScript bitmoji, JavaScript html canvas, html canvas, snapchat tool kit, bitmoji api tutorial, bitmoji javascript, bitmoji js, snapchat api tutorial] views: 1308 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/add-bitmoji-sticker-to-canvas-with-javascript-using-the-bitmoji-kit youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKIcWvXNLk youtube_id: DQKIcWvXNLk embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/DQKIcWvXNLk thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DQKIcWvXNLk/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Add bitmoji sticker to canvas with JavaScript using the bitmoji kit *Published: March 31, 2021* *Views: 1308* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKIcWvXNLk) [![Add bitmoji sticker to canvas with JavaScript using the bitmoji kit](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DQKIcWvXNLk/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKIcWvXNLk) ## Description Learn how to use the bitmoji kit sticker picker to add a bitmoji image to an HTML canvas with JavaScript. Code: https://github.com/cjavdev/video_automation Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjav_dev Feedback: https://forms.gle/Q31hhjJGsMrvY4mL6 It turns out there's a really excellent tool called TubeBuddy that already exists and does most of what I was planning to build. I've started using TubeBuddy in the past few months and really like it. If you use this link to buy a license, I'll get a small cut for being an affiliate: https://www.tubebuddy.com/cjavdev. ## Transcript what's up welcome back everyone today we have a really fun uh episode i think that uh yeah it should be it should just be kind of fun to play with uh we're gonna work on the bitmoji api today and so if you've been following along we're building a tool for helping um the helping with the video production process and so one of the things that i do for some thumbnails is i use a bitmoji or bitmoji icon so you can see here with the ecom store we've got bitmojis and this is this is one of my more popular videos here memory card and react building a memory card game in react that has bitmojis that's like a pair between my son and i and so one thing that i wanted to do is just add support to our existing tool for for generating thumbnails so we have this rails application that's running that we've built a bunch of stuff on if you're curious about how we are building thumbnails we have an episode about that both creating them from an svg converting them to a png uploading them to the youtube api we also have a episode about taking a green screen photo so if you want to go check those out i'd welcome you to this in this episode what we're going to do is extend our thumbnail tool so that we can use the bitmoji kit log in and then just like select one of the stickers uh and then apply that to our thumbnail so that that should be the goal for today and i think it should be pretty fun um so the the first thing that i wanted to do was uh go over to this bitmoji api here so this is from snapchat and you'll see that it is available for ios android and web we're going to use the web version today so you can look at a bunch of different tutorials and references and sample applications and i think that it should be pretty straightforward to get up and running with a sticker picker that is like just purely front end so all javascript it'll look like this there's like a button that you can click on and then it will open a dialog where you can authenticate with with uh with snapchat and then you can just pick one of the stickers from snapchat and that has like a transparent background pretty nice so if we jump in here and we look at they have let's see adding a bitmoji kit icon with html um and so the process is that you you add a div and then you add just like a bunch of javascript um to mount that div and they actually have a pretty complete example here uh that i think we might want to just copy like the their final example which i believe is this one yeah so this is the example full code so i am going to first i'm going to generate a controller so rails generate a controller and we'll call this one like thumbnail stickers and we'll just give it a new action or like a new view and then here we can go into the thumbnail stickers new let's see like add a sticker to a thumbnail all right so i think what makes the most sense is to start from the code that we already have written for thumbnails so if you recall if we jump over to our video automation tool here and then go into like any uh any episode we've got one here that's called record a video with javascript in ruby on rails and the ui is still pretty nasty but if we go to slash thumb we get this tool for generating these thumbnails based on the text of the title and the category of the video and so this first one is an svg then it generates you know pngs and renders those so that we can save them and then this button here this upload thumbnail button will actually like send it to the youtube api but for now i'm just going to copy the same code that we used in there and just mess around with it before we get too far so i'm sorry before we uh actually upload to youtube so we're going to keep that as a separate thing so i'm going to remove this code that makes the upload call and let's just make sure that this is working so now if we go to like thumbnail stickers slash new uh right so we don't actually have a video object here we can just use whatever like the first video is video dot first dot thumb svg okay so now we have some svgs that are rendering that's cool so now the goal is to add a button here that when we click it it will authenticate with snapchat and let us pick a bitmoji that we can drop into our thumbnail so all right so this is how this works we're gonna this is gonna be our button at the very top so we'll just add that here um and then the next step is that we wanna add all of this javascript so we'll kind of like go through this in a second here all right okay so yeah let's let's take a look at what all this is doing all right so we are adding this new function to the window called snap kit and knit so this is like going to be and the the code that is called to initialize snap kit and then at the bottom we have a an immediately invoked function expression here which is going to just like install the uh the login bitmoji.js um script tag from snapkit and then i believe once this is loaded it will execute that um it'll execute this like snapkit init function and here we're going to like tell it which where our button is so this my bitmoji sticker picker icon target is the same as this class that we have up here on the div the next thing is that we have some ui options this is actually where we're gonna we're gonna do some important work in the future so this is where um like when a sticker is picked run this function so this is what we're gonna we're gonna execute it's a little it's kind of fun how they've implemented this with uh it's it's interesting it's not super common to have like function and then a named function as a property i think in fact that like javascript might do this for you now by default if you use the object syntax like it'll give you this name whatever uh web picker position bottom right i don't know what that does but um we'll keep going here we have login params we need to pass in our client id and a redirect uri because when you click on like login with bitmoji it needs to go do the oauth flow with bitmoji so let's go to the next step here which is we need to actually like set up an application in the developer portal so you can sign in you can sign in with your snap chat account and then here i already have like one old app that i was playing around with so i'm going to click add app so i'm going to create a new app here we'll just call it like video automations i don't know and then a category sure education it's like a tool for managing videos on youtube and then our privacy policy actually i'm not sure if we need to like do any of that we do need the login kit and we want the avatar and we do need the bitmoji kit so we'll activate both of those now for the login kit down here at the bottom we have to add a redirect uri so this is going to be the url to which will redirect users when they click on the button so in development we want to come back just like jump back into this thumbnail stickers dot new so we'll just use that as our redirect uri thumbnail stickers slash new so we click add uri and now we have this like redirect uri that we'll come back to the next thing we need to do is get our get our keys so here you have two different environments you have your production environment and your staging environment so i'm just going to use the client id from staging and i think yeah it's totally safe to share these because these are going to be just embedded in the client so i think that's fine so i'm going to put that in here and then the redirect uri is going to be the url that we used earlier okay all right so this is these are the scopes that we want the display name the avatar all right and then it's just gonna mount it'll mount that sticker icon given those i'm sorry it'll it'll call mountbitmoji sticker picker icons which is going to take in all these options that we just configured so the login params the ui options and the bitmoji picker icon class so if we refresh the page look at that we've got like this little bitmoji icon up here now so if we click on that we can say continue with snapchat and this will invalid redirect uri let's see if we have if we have this localhost 3000 thumbnail sticker slash new and what did we save over here um let's see initial version thumbnail sticker slash maybe we have to click submit for review it's not like ready yet but i think that's the same uri so that should work i think let's see continue with snapchat invalid redirect uri okay um aha okay so staging i hadn't selected which version that it should be active on and the version the version number has the redirect uri embedded so i wonder if that is it so we're going to refresh and walk through okay that was it that was totally it okay so the key there was making sure to select from the um to select from setup in the staging environment when you're using your client id you also need to have your initial version selected uh okay so now that we've got that initial version selected we can say continue uh continue this will redirect us back to our page here and now we can just pick or we can click on stickers and when you click on the stickers you'll notice that in the in the console we're logging out the url to that sticker okay so this is pretty cool so the next thing we want to do is like when the when the sticker is clicked add it to our svg or add it to our like thumbnail that we're generating um all right so the let's let's render these again render these back onto the page the thumbnails um let's see right okay so now we've got our thumbnails on the page and we can still we can still select so we've got our morning or whatever okay so let's go implement let's go implement the step here so when we click on a sticker the callback is past the url to the image for the bitmoji and what we want to do is we want to take that bitmoji and add it to our svg or our html canvas so we want to do is say something like ctx.drawimage and we need to pass in an image object and the location so we'll just pass it the top left corner to start and this image object is going to be a new image and we need to set the image's source equal to this bitmoji url and then we should i think this might actually draw it onto the context let's or onto the the canvas let's see so if we um if we pick that bitmoji look at that oh awesome okay super cool so now this ended up being converted or like added to um to the image um and we got our picker all set up so that's awesome let's see so what is the last piece here so we kind of want to be able to draw it on a specific spot so i'm not exactly sure the best way to do this i kind of wonder if we should just guess for now let's just like make it 500 uh and 500 and see where this thing lands so if we say we pick an image it doesn't matter which one click morning okay so 500 500 got us pretty close um let's actually inspect this and see if we can um ah right we can't really yeah there's not like a super easy way to move that around i wonder if there's a way to like click and drag that and then place it exactly where we want it yeah probably but for now for now let's just keep let's just keep scooting it over okay getting warmer getting warmer i think that's pretty good actually all right so that's how you can use the bitmoji sticker api to uh to generate or to authenticate to bitmoji and then add stickers to your ui a pretty fun little tool thanks so much for watching if you found this content useful i'd really appreciate a quick like otherwise i really appreciate you your time and attention thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music] --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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