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go-censorword is a lightweight and easy-to-use tool that allows you to detect and filter out profanity words from your text-based content. Whether you're building a social media platform, a chat app, or just want to keep your comments section clean, this package can help.

 go get -u github.com/pcpratheesh/go-censorword

for previous version

 go get -u github.com/pcpratheesh/go-censorword@v1.1.0

import (
	"github.com/pcpratheesh/go-censorword"
)

The go-censorword package uses a censorWord here list to check profanities, but also provides an option for you to override this list with your own contents. You can create a list of bad words that are not included in the original blacklist by using the customCensorList method.

CustomCensorList([]string{}) 

// this would initialize the detector object.
var detector = gocensorword.NewDetector(
	gocensorword.WithCensorReplaceChar("*"),
 
 // override the existing list of bad words with your own
 gocensorword.WithCustomCensorList([]string{
 "bad", "word","one",
 }),
)
// censor the word
actualString := "with having some bad words"
filterString, err := detector.CensorWord(actualString)
if err != nil {
 panic(err)
}

• WithCensorReplaceChar(string) : This method can be used to replace the filtered word characters with asterisks (*), dashes (-) or custom characters, like the pound sign (#) or at sign (@).
• WithCustomCensorList([]string) : The list of your own profanity words
• WithSanitizeSpecialCharacters(bool): To sanitize the special characters in the word
• WithKeepPrefixChar(bool): If you want to Kept the prefix Character (eg : F****)
• WithKeepSuffixChar(bool): If you want to Kept the suffix Character (eg : ****K)

detector := NewDetector(
 gocensorword.WithCensorReplaceChar("*"),
)
resultString, err := detector.CensorWord(inputString)
if err != nil {
 panic(err)
}

In the future, we should implement the following points

• Support for other language profanities
• All words having repeated characters more than twice

Contributions to the Profanity Filter package are welcome and encouraged! If you find a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue on GitHub. If you'd like to contribute code, please fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request.

The Profanity Filter package is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.