profanity-js

A filter of swear words.

Instalation

npm i profanity-js

API

This module exports a constructor function which takes an inputStr string and config object, to creates a Profanity instance.

Profanity(inputStr, config)

Creates a new Profanity instance.

Arguments

• inputStr - Optional - A plain JavaScript string containing the value to be filtered.

• config - Optional - A plain JavaScript object containing configuration options.

inputStr

• Input string to evaluate if contains profanity.

config

Profanity configurations.

• saveOriginal - Define if the original input string will be saved.
• enabled - Define if the filter will be enabled.
• placeHolder - Character used to replace profane words.
• replaceRegex - Regular expression used to replace profane words with placeHolder.
• separatorRegex - Regular expression used to split a string into words.
• excludeWords - List of words to be ignored when filter profane words.
• wordsList - List of words to be override the default dictionary of profane words.
• language - Language used to filter profane texts.

Return value

A Profanity instance.

Resources

Every resource is accessed via your Profanity instance:

• .censor() - Evaluate if string is profanity and return an edited version.
• .isProfane() - Evaluate if a string is a profane language.
• .censureWord() - Censure a word with placeHolder characters.
• .loadOriginal() - Return original text if config.saveOrigial as true.
• .addWords() - Add word(s) to wordlist filter.
• .removeWords() - Remove word(s) from wordlist filter.

Usage

const Profanity = require('profanity-js');

1. Censor swear words from a text

By default, profanity replaces each swear words with the string length with asterisk *.

const profanity = new Profanity();

console.log(profanity.isProfane("merda"));
// log: true

let censoredText = profanity.censor("isso é uma merda");
console.log(censoredText); 
// log: isso é uma *****

1. Censor swear words with custom character (if in wordlits)

In .censor() asterisks in will be used to replace the swear words.

let censoredText = profanity.censor("You piece of sH1t");
console.log(censoredText); 
// log: You piece of ****

1. Check if the string contains any swear words

Function .isProfane() return True if any words in the given string has a word existing in the wordlist.

let dirtyText = "That l3sbi4n did a very good H4ndjob.";

console.log(profanity.isProfane(dirtyText));
// log: true

1. Add more censor words

let customBadwords = ['happy', 'sometext'];

profanity.addWords(...customBadwords);

console.log(profanity.isProfane("Happy day bro!"));
// log: true

1. Remove censor words

let removeBadwords = ['asshole'];

profanity.removeWords(...removeBadwords);

console.log(profanity.isProfane("Don't be an asshole"));
// log: false

1. Check if the string contains any swear words

Function .isProfane() return True if any words in the given string has a word existing in the wordlist.

let dirtyText = "That l3sbi4n did a very good H4ndjob.";

console.log(profanity.isProfane(dirtyText));
// log: true

1. Language support

The lib supports two languages they are Brazilian Portuguese and English, the defaults are Portuguese and to change this, see below.

let config = {
    language: "en-us"
};

let dirtyText = "fuck this shit";

const profanity = new Profanity(dirtyText, config)

console.log(profanity.censor());
// log: **** this ****

The config Object will be overwritten the default values.

1. Overrides placeHolder

To use a custom placeHolder, just overwritten the default value with a config Object.

let config = {
    placeHolder: "-"
};

let dirtyText = "fuck this shit";

const profanity = new Profanity(dirtyText, config)

console.log(profanity.censor());
// log: ---- this ----

1. Overrides default dictionary

To overrides the default profane dictionary, just set the new Array of words in config Object.

let config = {
    wordsList: ['shit', 'fuck', 'this']
};

let dirtyText = "fuck this shit";

const profanity = new Profanity(dirtyText, config)

console.log(profanity.censor());
// log: **** **** *****

Testing

npm run test

or

yarn test

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

Contributing

If you want to contribute to a project and make it better, feel free to fork and contribute.

Special thanks to

• youngkaneda - For help and support with the Regex expressions and make this code better.

Author

Made with ❤ by Rogério Araújo