SalemCensor

Inspiration

I decided that the online harassment project would be the center of my work and thought I would try to learn something new that I've never touched, javascript. One of my favorite chrome extensions is very similar to this and it is the cloud-to-butt extension.

What it does

A predefined set of words, chosen from a list of the most popular curse words, is searched for in a website using a walker in javascript and replaced with other words.

How I built it

I referenced plenty of programs that essentially replace words on webpages with other words and tried to edit it to fit my needs of censoring webpages. I first learned to make a very basic chrome extension and then tried to work off the public github source files.

Challenges I ran into

I could not understand how to break down a webpage's elements into nodes that are readable. Once I was able to implement existing work to run a walker to read all the words in a webpage once it's done running it finally worked.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was able to read and understand other people's work from github and manipulate it to do what I wanted it to and understand the formatting for the regex that is used for the searched words.