spam-detector v0.0.0

node-spam-detector

This little module exposes a single function which can be used to check whether a given URL is considered spam after consulting several major domain blacklists. Under the hood, the function first uses the unshortener package to reduce the URL to its original form in case that it was shortened. It then makes DNS calls to blacklists provided by URIBL, Spamhaus and SURBL.

Installation & Loading

The module can be easily installed via npm:

npm install spam-detector

To use it in a project, require the package with the command

isSpam = require("spam-detector");

Syntax

isSpam(url, callback)

The function has two parameters: The first is the URL which has to be checked, and the second is a callback function of the form function(err, data). The first argument err is equal to null if no error has occured during checking and an Error object otherwise. The second argument is a Boolean value which evaluates to true in case that the supplied URL is considered to be spam and false otherwise.

Example:

var isSpam = require("spam-detector");
isSpam("http://www.github.com", function(err, data){
console.log(data);
});

Output:

false