flood-detector

Javascript detection of repetitive strings using the LZ algorithm

How it works ?

When people type garbage messages in order to be annoying, they tend to repeat word or letters or to use specific patterns which will allow a better compression of the string. By LZ-compressing the string and looking how much we were able to reduce its size, we can estimate if the text is garbage or real text.

This is not perfect and I think maybe there is a better solution for this. Don't hesitate to tell me if you know a better way.

This is currently active on https://fr.lou.lt/ to avoid annoying floods. Short demo can be found here.

Node.js

npm install flood-detector

then:

FloodDetector = require('flood-detector');
if (FloodDetector.evaluate(string)) {
  console.log('probably not flood');
} else {
  console.log('probably flood');
}

There is an optional parameter to change the trigger value (default value is 30) :

// This will return true only if the compressed string has more than 40% of the size of the original string
FloodDetector.evaluate(string, 40); 

Bower

bower install flood-detector

then:

<script src="bower_components/lz-string/libs/lz-string.min.js"></script>
<script src="bower_components/flood-detector/flood-detector.js"></script>
<script>
  if (FloodDetector.evaluate(string)) {
    console.log('probably not flood');
  } else {
    console.log('probably flood');
  }
</script>

Yeah, that's a damn small package but very useful for me.

License

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                  Version 2, December 2004 

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> 

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