@duckodas/badwords

A javascript filter for badwords

Supported Languages (ar, cs, da, de, en, eo, es, fa, fi, fil, fr, hi, hu, it, ja, kab, ko, nl, no, pl, pt)

Requirements

As of version 2, requires you either have an environment that understands ES2016 and beyond or a transpiler like Babel.

Installation

npm i @duckodas/badwords

Usage

const Filter = require("@duckodas/badwords"),
const customFilter = new Filter();

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

Placeholder Overrides

const Filter = require("@duckodas/badwords");
const customFilter = new Filter({ placeHolder: "x" });

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

Check if text has bad words

const Filter = require("@duckodas/badwords");
const customFilter = new Filter();

customFilter.hasBadwords("Don't be an ash0le"); // true
customFilter.hasBadwords("Don't be an cookie"); // false

Regex Overrides

const Filter = new Filter({ regex: /\*|\.|$/gi });
const Filter2 = new Filter({ replaceRegex: /[A-Za-z0-9가-힣_]/g });
//multilingual support for word filtering

Add words to the blacklist

const filter = new Filter();

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

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

//or use an array using the spread operator

let newBadWords = ["some", "bad", "word"];

filter.addWords(...newBadWords);

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

//or

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

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

Instantiate with an empty list

const 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

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.

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