Email Validation

Email Validation is a library that validates email addresses and checks againts more than 10K domains used for disposable emails

If you want to block disposable email addresses at signup, or if you are a B2B company and want only professional email adresses, this is the solution for you :)









This library does multiple verifications:
- Email format validation
- Free email address (@gmail.com, @hotmail.com, @protonmail.com, ...)
- Disposable email address (@maildrop.cc, @fakemail.net, @trashmail.com, ...)
- Possible typos in popular email domains

Email Validation has 0 dependency, 100% coverage, and is fully configurable.

Table of Contents

- Installation
- Usage
- Configuration
- Result
- Contributions
- License

Installation

Install using npm:

``bash
npm install fakemail-guard
`

or Yarn yarn:

`bash
yarn add fakemail-guard
`

Usage

Email Validation is initialized with a list of default domains

$3

`javascript
const EmailValidation = require('fakemail-guard')
const ev = new EmailValidation()

// This email will be invalid because it is a free email
const result = ev.check('random@gmail.com')
console.log(${result.email} validity: ${result.valid})

// This email will be invalid because it is a disposable email
const result2 = ev.check('iamadisposableemail@yopmail.com')
console.log(${result2.email} validity: ${result2.valid})

// You can also check for possible typos
const result3 = ev.check('john@gmil.com')
if (result3.typo) console.log(Did you mean ${result3.typo}?)

`

The output will be an object with some information on the validity (see result section)

$3

Email Validation can be configured with more advanced options as an object:

- whitelist _(Array)_ Add some email domains you want to whitelist (default is [])
- blacklist _(Array)_ Add some email domains you want to blacklist (default is [])
- allowFreemail _(Boolean)_ Allow free emails such as @gmail.com, ... (default is false)
- allowDisposable _(Boolean)_ Allow disposable emails such as @trashmail.com, ... (default is false)

You can for example choose to allow freemails, and add a domain baddomain.com in addition to the preconfigured list

#### Advanced configuration example

`javascript
const EmailValidation = require('fakemail-guard')
const ev = new EmailValidation({ allowFreemail: true, blacklist: ['baddomain.com'] })

// This one should have result.valid = true because we allowed free mails such as gmail.com
ev.check('random@gmail.com')

// But this one is blacklisted now
ev.check('paul@baddomain.com')

`

Or if you want to disallow all free mails, except gmail.com :

`javascript
const ev = new EmailValidation({ whitelist: ['gmail.com'] })

`

You can check some examples in example.js

#### Updating options on the fly

In case you need to update options after initialization, you can do it on the fly with different methods:

- whitelist _(Function)_ Add a new domain to the whitelist
- blacklist _(Function)_ Add a new domain to the blacklist
- setOptions _(Function)_ Changes the options


`javascript
const EmailValidation = require('fakemail-guard')
const ev = new EmailValidation()

// This adds a new domain as invalid
ev.blacklist('baddomain.com')

// This marks a domain as valid
ev.whitelist('gooddomain.com')

// This changes options to allow freemails
ev.setOptions({ allowFreemail: true })

`

Result

Email Validation will output an object with the following information:

- email _(String)_ Email in a standardized format (trimed and lowercased)
- domain _(String)_ Domain from the email
- valid _(Boolean)_ Is the email address valid?
- errors _(Array)_ List of errors if any
- typo _(String)_ Is there any possible typo in the email?

Errors contains strings and can be one of :
- invalid Email is not present of format is invalid
- disposable Email is disposable (and not whitelisted or allowed in parameters)
- freemail Email is a free mail (and not whitelisted or allowed in parameters)
- blacklisted Email is blacklisted in parameters

#### Example :

`javascript
const EmailValidation = require('fakemail-guard')
const ev = new EmailValidation()

const result = ev.check('RANDOM@gmail.com')
console.log(result)

// This will return :
// {
// email: 'random@gmail.com',
// domain: 'gmail.com'
// valid: false,
// errors: ['freemail'],
// typo: null
// {

`

Contributions

If you need a simple way to add domains to the list, just run yarn add-domain [DOMAIN] [CATEGORY]

For example yarn add-domain freemail gmail.com`

Then feel free to create Pull Requests :)

Licence

MIT License