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The-Big-Username-Blocklist

This is a opinionated blocklist of words that you might not like to see used as usernames in your service (think username.domain.com, domain.com/username or username@domain.com).

The editable blocklist can be found in list_raw.txt and is categorized into six sections:

Privileges User privilege terms to prevent faked authority. Example: root, super
Code: Programming terms that you might want to avoid in a url. Example: void, null
Terms: Various technical terms. Example: request, system
Financial: This is for the spammers/scammers. Example: payment, invoice
Sections: Common website pages and sections. Example: faq, help
Actions: User actions. Example: delete, create

You can try the blocklist using the tool Username checker.

Please note that this list does not contain any curse words, there are other lists for that.

How it works

This repro contains standard data files, just pick the format of your choosing.

newline: list.txt
json: list.json
python: list.py
javascript (es6): list.js
javascript (commonjs): list-commonjs.js
php: list.php
yaml: list.yaml

Packages

Blocklist has been ported to different languages.

Official

python
node

Third party libraries containing data from blocklist

Contributing

Want to contribute? Awesome.

Checkout the origin/develop branch
First edit list_raw.txt
When you are done, run python scripts/generate.py.
... This script will update the various list files.
Done? Send a pull request.

Release start

These hooks will automatically bump the application version when using git flow release ...

chmod +x $PWD/git-hooks/bump-version.sh
ln -nfs $PWD/git-hooks/bump-version.sh .git/hooks/post-flow-release-start
ln -nfs $PWD/git-hooks/bump-version.sh .git/hooks/post-flow-hotfix-start

Git workflow and release management

This project uses gitflow and semantic versioning.

License

The-Big-Username-Blocklist is released under the MIT License.