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A lightweight JS-based library to inline redact e-mail addresses to protect against against scraping.
A simple library that will allow you to replace an e-mail address with an encoded version of the address.
npm install emend
include the library in your project:
<head>
<script src="emend.js"></script>
</head>
and initialize it in your code (just before the end body
tag):
<script>
emend.init('YOUR SALT VALUE');
</script>
/**
* @param {String} explicitPrefix - The prefix to use for explicit emendations.
* @param {String} salt - The salt to use for emendations.
* @param {Boolean} explicitOnly - Whether to only emend explicit elements.
* @param {Number} domRemoveDelay - The delay in milliseconds to remove the emendation from the DOM.
* @param {Number} sendClickDelay - The delay in milliseconds to send a click event to the emendation.
*/
{
explicitPrefix: '@',
salt: '',
explicitOnly: false,
domRemoveDelay: 1200,
sendClickDelay: 500
};
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FAQs
A lightweight JS-based library to inline redact e-mail addresses to protect against against scraping.
We found that emend demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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