Basic Profanity Checker Node Module

This is a simple module/class that checks a string for profanity based on bad words that are defined in CSV files. Contains a sample list of 413 bad words in addition to a list of 7 sample bad words in Spanish. Add or customize the bad word lists as needed.

Installation

with NPM

user@machine> npm i badwords-js-from-csv

with Yarn

user@machine> yarn install badwords-js-from-csv

- or -

simply include BadWords.js in your project and src/package/import/require it as necessary, making the necessary environmental configurations as outlined below in ENV vars

Usage

BadWords.js exports a factory class as a module, BadWords

Example

const svcBadWords = require('badwords-js-from-csv')
svcBadWords.isProfane('is this statement profane?') // returns false
svcBadWords.isProfane('no a$$hole$ allowed') // returns true

ENV vars

CORPORA_DIR

(Optional)

Default : ./corpora

contains the CSV files that define bad words

SPLIT_CHARS

(Optional)

Default : ['=', ',', ':', ' ', '.']

a white-space delimited string of characters to use in .split() regular expression on the input text

SPLIT_CHARS_INCLUDE_SPACE

(Optional)

Default : true

include space character as a delimiter if custom SPLIT_CHARS env var is defined

BadWordsSvc Module

Public Props

corporaDir Directory containing bad word definition CSV files

masterCorpusArr Master corpus array of bad word strings

splitCharsArr Characters being used in split statements to define what is a word.

Public Methods

splitMulti(inputStr, delimiters)

Returns an array of "words" split by the custom array of delimiters provided. Not necessary to be public, but a useful utility method, so figured it would be worth exposing

isProfane(inputStr)

Returns a boolean, true if the input string is profane, false if not

About the Badword CSV files

Note that currently the badwords are being parsed based on ',\n' structure in the CSV. Maintain the whitespace and carriage return structure defined in the two example CSV files to create your own bad words lists.