bad-words

A javascript filter for badwords

Installation

npm install bad-words

Usage

var Filter = require('bad-words'),
  filter = new Filter();

console.log(filter.clean("Don't be an ash0le")); //Don't be an ******

Placeholder Overrides

var Filter = require('bad-words');
var customFilter = new Filter({ placeHolder: 'x'});

customFilter.clean('Don't be an ash0le'); //Don't be an xxxxxx

Regex Overrides

var filter = new Filter({ regex: /\*|\.|$/gi });

var filter = new Filter({ replaceRegex:  /[A-Za-z0-9가-힣_]/g }); 
//multilingual support for word filtering

Add words to the blacklist

var filter = new Filter(); 

filter.addWords(['some', 'bad', 'word']);

filter.clean("some bad word!") //**** *** ****!

//or

var filter = new Filter({ list: ['some', 'bad', 'word'] }); 

filter.clean("some bad word!") //**** *** ****!

Instantiate with an empty list

var filter = new Filter({ emptyList: true }); 
filter.clean('hell this wont clean anything'); //hell this wont clean anything

Remove words from the blacklist

var filter = new Filter(); 

filter.removeWords('hells');

filter.clean("some hells word!"); //some hells word!

API

Filter

Filter constructor.

Parameters

• options object Filter instance options
  • options.emptyList boolean Instantiate filter with no blacklist
  • options.list array Instantiate filter with custom list
  • options.placeHolder string Character used to replace profane words.
  • options.regex string Regular expression used to sanitize words before comparing them to blacklist.
  • options.replaceRegex string Regular expression used to replace profane words with placeHolder.

isProfane

Determine if a string contains profane language.

Parameters

• string string String to evaluate for profanity.

isProfaneLike

Determine if a single word is profane or looks profane.

Parameters

• word string String to evaluate for profanity.

replaceWord

Replace a word with placeHolder characters;

Parameters

• string string String to replace.

clean

Evaluate a string for profanity and return an edited version.

Parameters

• string string Sentence to filter.

addWords

Add words to blacklist filter / remove words from whitelist filter

Parameters

• words

removeWords

Add words to whitelist filter

Parameters

• word ...string Word to add to whitelist.

Testing

npm test

Release Notes

• v1.1.0 / Mar 17 2015: Added soundex support for comparing words to things not in the list.
• v1.2.0 / May 29 2015: Removed soundex logic which resulted in many false positives within the isProfane test.
• v1.3.0 / Oct 1 2015: Updated local list and documentation. Added ability to pass a custom list of words during construction.
• v1.4.0 / Sept 2 2016: Added removeWords feature. Added emptyList configuration parameter.
• v1.4.1 / Sept 2 2016: Updated documentation.
• v1.4.3 / Jan 21 2017: Add multilingual support for word filtering
• v1.5.1 / April 14 2017: Patch for word tokenization.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Price

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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