Unprofane

May 5, 2026 · View on GitHub

A typescript profanity detector and filter for Node.js and the browser.

Installation

$ npm i unprofane

In Node.js:

const Unprofane = require("unprofane");
//or
import Unprofane from "unprofane";

Example Usage

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ lang: "all" });
//Multilingual support for word filtering
//{lang : 'all'} represents all language word filter
//Available language are ['ar','cs','da','en','eo','es','fa','fi','fr','hi','hu','it','ja','ko','nl','no','pl','pt','ru','sv','th','tlh','zh']

//profanity check returns boolen
console.log(isProfane.check("Don't be an ash0le")); //true

//profanity clean returns cleaned word
console.log(isProfane.censor("Don't be an ash0le")); //Don't be an ******

Note: Default value for Unprofane { lang : 'all', placeHolder: '*' }.

Placeholder Overrides

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ placeHolder: "x" });
isProfane.censor("Don't be an ash0le"); //Don't be an xxxxxx

Regex Overrides

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ regex: /\*|\.|$/gi });
const isProfane = new Unprofane({ replaceRegex: /[A-Za-z0-9가-힣_]/g });

Add words to the blacklist

const isProfane = new Unprofane();
isProfane.addWords(["some", "bad", "word"]);
isProfane.censor("some bad word!"); //**** *** ****!
isProfane.check("some bad word!"); //true

//or

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ list: ["some", "bad", "word"] });
isProfane.censor("some bad word!"); //**** *** ****!
isProfane.check("some bad word!"); //true

Instantiate with an empty list

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ emptyList: true });
isProfane.censor("hell this wont clean anything"); //hell this wont clean anything
isProfane.censor("hell this wont clean anything"); //false

Remove words from the blacklist

const isProfane = new Unprofane();
isProfane.removeWords(["hells", "sadist"]);
isProfane.censor("some hells word!"); //some hells word!
isProfane.check("some hells word!"); //false

Exclude words from the profanity list

const isProfane = new Unprofane({ exclude: ["ash0le"] });
isProfane.check("Don't be an ash0le"); //false
isProfane.censor("Don't be an ash0le"); //Don't be an ash0le

Export words list with language

const isProfane = new Unprofane();
isProfane.wordsList("all"); // [ "Asesinato", "*shit*"...]
isProfane.wordsList("es"); // [ "Asesinato", "Bollera",..]
isProfane.wordsList("en"); // [ "*dyke", "*shit*"...]
// on error lang is 'all'