bad-words

A javascript filter for bad words.

Requirements

Requires you either have an environment that understands ES2016 and beyond or a transpiler like Babel.

Usage

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

console.log(filter.clean("Don't be an ash0le")); //Don't be an ******
console.log(filter.clean("No seas pendej0")); //No seas pendej0

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

Select language

var Filter = require('bad-words');

//It will only filter bad words in Spanish.
var filter = new Filter({languages: ['es']});

filter.clean("Don't be an assh0le"); //Don't be an assh0le
filter.clean("Hola pendejo"); //Hola *******

Add words to the blacklist

var filter = new Filter(); 

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

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

//or use an array using the spread operator

var newBadWords = ['some', 'bad', 'word'];

filter.addWords(...newBadWords);

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

let filter = new Filter(); 

filter.removeWords('hells', 'sadist');

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

//or use an array using the spread operator

let removeWords = ['hells', 'sadist'];

filter.removeWords(...removeWords);

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

API

Table of Contents

• constructor
• isProfane
• replaceWord
• clean
• addWords
• removeWords

constructor

Filter constructor.

Parameters

• options object Filter instance options (optional, default {})
  • 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.
  • options.splitRegex string Regular expression used to split a string into words.
  • options.languages array List of the languages to use. By default it will use both Spanish and English.

isProfane

Determine if a string contains profane language.

Parameters

• string 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 word(s) to blacklist filter / remove words from whitelist filter

Parameters

• word ...string Word(s) to add to blacklist

removeWords

Add words to whitelist filter

Parameters

• word ...string Word(s) to add to whitelist.

Testing

npm test

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2023 blackmambaza

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