bad-words-next

JavaScript/TypeScript filter and checker for bad words aka profanity.

API documentation in GitHub Wiki.

NOTE: we don't supply with raw json data files in version >= 3.0.0. See the example below to update paths in your import or require statements.

Install

yarn add bad-words-next

or

npm install bad-words-next

Basic usage

const BadWordsNext = require('bad-words-next')
const en = require('bad-words-next/lib/en')

const badwords = new BadWordsNext({ data: en })

// Returns true when passed string contains a bad word
console.log(badwords.check('S0me sh!++ is here'))
// will print `true`

// Returns filtered string with masked bad words
console.log(badwords.filter('S0me sh!++ is here'))
// will print `S0me *** is here`

// Returns filtered string and catches bad words
badwords.filter('S0me sh!++ is here', badword => {
  console.log(badword)
})
// will print `sh!++`

// Use exclusions
const badwords = new BadWordsNext({ data: en, exclusions: ['sh+it+' /*works with lookalikes or the actual words*/] })
console.log(badwords.filter('S0me sh!++ is here'))
// will keep the `sh!++` word

Add more dictionaries

const BadWordsNext = require('bad-words-next')

const en = require('bad-words-next/lib/en')
const es = require('bad-words-next/lib/es')
const fr = require('bad-words-next/lib/fr')
const de = require('bad-words-next/lib/de')
const ru = require('bad-words-next/lib/ru')
const rl = require('bad-words-next/lib/ru_lat')
const ua = require('bad-words-next/lib/ua')
const pl = require('bad-words-next/lib/pl')
const ch = require('bad-words-next/lib/ch')

const badwords = new BadWordsNext()
badwords.add(en)
badwords.add(es)
badwords.add(fr)
badwords.add(de)
badwords.add(ru)
badwords.add(rl)
badwords.add(ua)
badwords.add(pl)
badwords.add(ch)

Dictionary data format

interface Data {
  id: string  // Unique dictionary ID
  words: string[] // Words list
  lookalike: Lookalike // Lookalike homoglyphs map
}

type Lookalike = Record<string | number, string> // Simple key-value object

You can use the following pattern characters in a word string:

• * indicates any characters, use it only on start and/or end of a word
• + indicates one or more repeating characters
• _ indicates special characters

Here is an example of a typical data object:

{
  "id": "en",
  "words": [
    "any",      // just a word
    "ba+d*",    // word `bad` with repeating `a` and anything after `d`
    "*words*",  // word `words` with anything at start and end of it
    "are_here"  // word `are_here` with pseudo space chars between `r` and `h`
  ],
  "lookalike": {
    "@": "a",
    "1": "i"
  }
}

Options

interface Options {
  data?: Data // Dictionary data
  placeholder?: string // Filter placeholder - default '***'
  placeholderMode?: 'repeat' | 'replace' // Placeholder mode to either replace with or repeat the placeholder - default 'replace'
  specialChars?: RegExp // Special chars to allow on start and/or end of a word - default /\d|[!@#$%^&*()[\];:'",.?\-_=+~`|]|a|(?:the)|(?:el)|(?:la)/
  spaceChars?: string[] // Pseudo space chars, a list of values for `_` symbol in a dictionary word string - default ['', '.', '-', ';', '|']
  confusables?: string[] // List of ids to apply transformations from `confusables` npm package - default ['en', 'es', 'de', 'ru_lat']
  maxCacheSize?: number // Max items to store in cache - default 100
  exclusions?: string[] // The list of exclusions
}

See Options API for more details.

Notes

• Dictionary words with spaces won't work b/c they do not represent a single word

• Dictionaries have to be improved over time