Published NPM Package: Phrase-blacklister

I just published a package for use with Node.js: phrase-blacklister

 

You can use this package to check if a certain string contains a banned word. Most bad words are banned by default such as fuck, shit, and ass. Some people attempt to bypass a text filter by using numbers. For example, 'sh1t', which humans would read as, 'shit'. The package can also optionally translate any odd characters to its corresponding alphabetical character.

 

I'll be using it on this forum soon, so contributions would most definitely be appreciated. This is the first time I've made a piece of the website public, but this would allow for bugs to be more thoroughly analyzed by the community. I'll consider creating more packages soon to make the website even more community managed. It may also be useful for those of you creating community-based applications.

 

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/phrase-blacklist

 

Github: https://github.com/2JJ1/phrase-blacklist#readme

 

Disclaimer: It's not completely fool-proof and is pretty weak. There is still a large majority of evasion that people can do, for example, shlt. The 'i' is a lower case L. The character translation only applies to 'special characters' (@=a, 4=a, $=s, 8=b, etc).