Adding a simple blacklist filter

[lazymanc]

Here's a quick example of how to stop tweets containing particular words from displaying.

$("#tweets").jTweetsAnywhere({
  blacklist    : [
    "badWord1",
    "badWord2",
    "badWord3",
    "etc"
  ],
  tweetFilter: function(tweet, options) {
    var blacklistCount = options.blacklist.length;

    if(blacklistCount < 1) {
      return true;
    }

    for(var i = 0; i < blacklistCount; i++) {
      var regex = new RegExp(options.blacklist[i], "gi");

      if(tweet.from_user.search(regex) != -1 || tweet.text.search(regex) != -1) {
        return false;
      }
    }

    return true;
  }
});

Not sure if this is the right place to post it, but hopefully it'll come in handy for someone.

[tbillenstein]

Thanks Phil for the sample.

Filtering tweets is one of the things people ask a lot about. I already thought about extending the current tweetFilter functionality because for a lot (non-programmer) users filling a white-/blacklist is much easier than coding a tweetFilter function.

[lazymanc]

It's difficult to judge what should be part of the plugin - you don't want it to become too bloated and heavy. The plugin is easily extendible though which is probably better than having lots of in-built features.

Maybe rather than including additional filters, you could have a page in the docs with common solutions such as whitelist / blacklist example code? That way you keep the plugin lightweight but still give people easy access to extra features that they can pick and choose from.