swearjar/README.md

Profanity detection and filtering library.

# swearjar-node

Profanity detection and filtering library.

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## Installation

    npm install --save swearjar

## Usage

### swearjar.profane(text)

Returns true if the given string contains profanity.

    var swearjar = require('swearjar');
    swearjar.profane("hello there"); // false
    swearjar.profane("hello mother f-bomb"); // true

### swearjar.censor(text)

Replaces profanity with asterisks.

    var clean = swearjar.censor("f-bomb you"); // **** you

### swearjar.scorecard(text)

Generates a report from the given text.

    swearjar.scorecard("f-bomb you"); // {sexual: 1, inappropriate: 1}

### swearjar.loadBadWords(path)

Loads a dictionary of words to be used as filter.

NOTE: A US English default list located in the config directory is included and loaded by default.

    swearjar.loadBadWords('./config/profanity.json');

A dictionary is just a plain JSON file containing an object where its keys are the words to check for and the values are arrays of categories where the words fall in.

	{
		"word1": ["category1", "category2"],
		"word2": ["category1"],
		"word3": ["category2"]
	}

## Acknowledgements

`swearjar-node` is based on [Swearjar](https://github.com/joshbuddy/swearjar) (Ruby) and [Swearjar PHP](https://github.com/raymondjavaxx/swearjar-php).