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main repo: https://github.com/huned/node-stopwords
Stopwords in multiple languages that you can easily use with your node.js programs. Currently provides stopwords for the following languages:
Stopwords in other languages are welcome as pull requests to https://github.com/huned/node-stopwords
npm install stopwords
// get an array of dutch stopwords
require('stopwords').dutch;
// get an array of english stopwords
require('stopwords').english;
// get an array of french stopwords
require('stopwords').french;
// get an array of german stopwords
require('stopwords').german;
// get an array of spanish stopwords
require('stopwords').spanish;
// get an array of italian stopwords
require('stopwords').italian;
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require('stopwords').english // or dutch, french, german, italian, spanish
The npm package stopwords receives a total of 1,926 weekly downloads. As such, stopwords popularity was classified as popular.
We found that stopwords 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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