obscure-email

Introduction

This is a module that will obfuscate emails. There are four variations as of now, listed below.

Any style not listed below, and that is passed in, will be null

Install

npm install --save obscure-email

Examples

var obf_email = require('obscure-email');

obf_email('[e-mail]');

obf_email('[e-mail]', 'default');

Styles

styles	description	example output
default	Shows the first 3 letters and stars the rest of the letters till the @ sign	[e-mail] : ema**@foo.com
end3	Stars the letters until the last 3 before the @ sign	[e-mail] : **[e-mail]
first3rs	Displays the first 3 letters with a random number of stars after, between 3 and 13	[e-mail] : ema***@foo.com -- ema*************@foo.com
end3rs	Displays a random number of stars first, between 3 and 13, and then the last 3 characters before the @ sign	[e-mail] : *[e-mail] -- *************[e-mail]

Edge Case Examples

styles	edge examples output
default	[e-mail] : *@foo.com -- [e-mail] : e*@foo.com -- [e-mail] : em*@foo.com
end3	[e-mail] : *@foo.com -- [e-mail] : *[e-mail] -- [e-mail] : *[e-mail]
first3rs	[e-mail] : ***@foo.com -- [e-mail] : e***@foo.com -- [e-mail] : em***@foo.com
end3rs	[e-mail] : ***@foo.com -- [e-mail] : ***[e-mail] -- [e-mail] : ***[e-mail]

NOTE: As above, you can go to 13 stars, 3 was chosen here for simplicity.