Censor unwanted URLs, emails and telephone numbers to prevent spam
Annoyed by spammers & scammers orchestrating fishing attacks with links, phone numbers or email address within your app? CensorifyIt is the answer!
Built as an extension of LinkifyIt
yarn add censorify-it
import CensorifyIt from 'censorify-it'
const censorify = new CensorifyIt()
console.log(censorify.process('Hello, here is https://alink.to/a-website can you find it?'))
// 'Hello, here is ************************** can you find it?'
console.log(censorify.process('My phone number is +1 123 456 7890'))
// 'My phone number is ***************'
console.log(censorify.match('Site github.com!'))
// [
// Match {
// schema: '',
// index: 5,
// lastIndex: 15,
// raw: 'github.com',
// url: 'http://github.com',
// text: '**********'
// }
// ]
console.log(censorify.match('My phone number is 01 01 01 01 01'))
// [
// Match {
// schema: '0',
// index: 19,
// lastIndex: 33,
// raw: '01 01 01 01 01',
// url: '01 01 01 01 01',
// text: '**************'
// }
// ]To change the replacement string:
const censorify = new CensorifyIt()
censorify.set({ replacementText: 'REMOVED' })
console.log(censorify.match('My phone number is 01 01 01 01 01'))
// [
// Match {
// schema: '0',
// index: 19,
// lastIndex: 33,
// raw: '01 01 01 01 01',
// url: '01 01 01 01 01',
// text: 'REMOVED'
// }
// ]Accepts an exceptions array of regex or function regex are executed against the raw text that was matched functions takes the full match as parameters
const censorify = new CensorifyIt()
const mysiteRegex = new RegExp(/mysite.com/g)
const mySophisticatedException = match => match.url === 'http://example.com'
censorify.set({ exceptions: [mysiteRegex, mySophisticatedException] })
console.log(censorify.match('Check out github.com or mysite.com or even example.com'))
// [
// Match {
// schema: '',
// index: 10,
// lastIndex: 20,
// raw: 'github.com',
// url: 'http://github.com',
// text: '**********'
// },
// Match {
// schema: '',
// index: 24,
// lastIndex: 34,
// raw: 'mysite.com',
// url: 'http://mysite.com',
// text: 'http://mysite.com'
// },
// Match {
// schema: '',
// index: 43,
// lastIndex: 54,
// raw: 'example.com',
// url: 'http://example.com',
// text: 'http://example.com'
// }
// ]All the other settings and additions as defined by LinkifyIt also apply.