Emote filter blacklist in nightbot

[sitetrial101]

I am a moderator in one of the youtube streams and wanted to introduce a troll mode where only emotes are allowed. To prevent meta etc. So basically the idea is during this time, timeout all messages except the ones which only contains emojis list.

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Example emojis list

How do I set the blacklist filter regex as “Everything” but this unicode list.

Thanks, in advance

[Emily]

Hey @sitetrial101!

I recommend you look at this JavaScript RegExp Reference, it’s very helpful to learn the basics of RegExp.

To answer your question with a short example: [^abc].

[sitetrial101]

Hey Emily!! Thanks for replying. Really appreciate you for the help.

I did try recreating it a little here

For example not emote1 or emote2
^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

But it doesn’t work. I read it on one of the older posts here that this type of regex is a negative lookahead regex which is not supported in nightbot.
So is there any way. To say do

Everything but emojis unicodes of range U+1F600…U+1F64F (Emoticons (Unicode block) - Wikipedia)

or everything but these words (where we can write emojis)

Appreciate all the help

[Emily]

You need to put it in brackets []:

@sitetrial101

^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$

So to modify your first RegExp, this should work:

/[^\u{1f300}-\u{1f5ff}\u{1f900}-\u{1f9ff}\u{1f600}-\u{1f64f}\u{1f680}-\u{1f6ff}\u{2600}-\u{26ff}\u{2700}-\u{27bf}\u{1f1e6}-\u{1f1ff}\u{1f191}-\u{1f251}\u{1f004}\u{1f0cf}\u{1f170}-\u{1f171}\u{1f17e}-\u{1f17f}\u{1f18e}\u{3030}\u{2b50}\u{2b55}\u{2934}-\u{2935}\u{2b05}-\u{2b07}\u{2b1b}-\u{2b1c}\u{3297}\u{3299}\u{303d}\u{00a9}\u{00ae}\u{2122}\u{23f3}\u{24c2}\u{23e9}-\u{23ef}\u{25b6}\u{23f8}-\u{23fa}]/gu

@sitetrial101

I read it on one of the older posts here that this type of regex is a negative lookahead regex which is not supported in Nightbot.

It’s true that we’ve had some issues with matching emotes, but from our tests we didn’t try using curly brackets {}, so maybe that’s the solution, I’d say give it a try and see.

[sitetrial101]

I am sorry to be a bother,

/[^\u{1f300}-\u{1f5ff}\u{1f900}-\u{1f9ff}\u{1f600}-\u{1f64f}\u{1f680}-\u{1f6ff}\u{2600}-\u{26ff}\u{2700}-\u{27bf}\u{1f1e6}-\u{1f1ff}\u{1f191}-\u{1f251}\u{1f004}\u{1f0cf}\u{1f170}-\u{1f171}\u{1f17e}-\u{1f17f}\u{1f18e}\u{3030}\u{2b50}\u{2b55}\u{2934}-\u{2935}\u{2b05}-\u{2b07}\u{2b1b}-\u{2b1c}\u{3297}\u{3299}\u{303d}\u{00a9}\u{00ae}\u{2122}\u{23f3}\u{24c2}\u{23e9}-\u{23ef}\u{25b6}\u{23f8}-\u{23fa}]/gu

This unfortunately din work. It din restrict any of the other words or characters.

I apologize for troubling more, when you said this should be in [],
^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$

I set this in spam protection
[^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$]

It works in regex tester

regex101: build, test, and debug regex

But in nightbot doesn’t end up banning any word

I would really appreciate if you have any idea/direction on this.

Thanks!

[Emily]

Don’t worry, you’re not a bother, I expected this topic to be difficult to solve.

I now remember we had a similar issue recently, this might be the same thing, but first, do you put your RegExp between slashes? /RegExp/, so with the bit of code you put above: /[^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$]/
If it still doesn’t work, try with a tilde (~) before it: ~/RegExp/, ~/[^((?!emote1|emote2).)*$]/

Also, I didn’t specify it because I felt it was obvious, but just in case, to test if the RegExp is efficient, you need to test it with an account that’s not the streamer or a moderator.