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is-institutional-email
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A module that checks whether an email address is institutional. This is a fork of the swot-js package, which would return false if not all domains were loaded yet. Because the package had not Github repo where I could make a pull request, I decided to publish it again. The API is also simplified:
let isInstitutionalEmail = require('is-institutional-email');
isInstitutionalEmail('something@stanford.edu') // true
isInstitutionalEmail('something@something.stanford.edu') // false
isInstitutionalEmail('something@something.stanford.edu', true) // true (accept subdomain)
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Check whether an email is institutional.
The npm package is-institutional-email receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, is-institutional-email popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that is-institutional-email 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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