is-academic-email

A lightweight Node.js utility for detecting academic email addresses and domains, powered by the swot dataset.

Installation

Using npm:

npm install is-academic-email

Using pnpm:

pnpm add is-academic-email

Quick start

import {
  isAcademic,
  isUnderTLD,
  isStoplisted,
  findSchoolNames,
} from 'is-academic-email';

isAcademic('jane.doe@ox.ac.uk'); // true ("ox.ac.uk" is a known academic domain)
isAcademic('user@gmail.com'); // false ("gmail.com" is not academic)

isUnderTLD('prof@university.edu.ee'); // true ("edu.ee" is a known academic TLD)
isStoplisted('https://mail.america.edu'); // true ("america.edu" is stoplisted)

findSchoolNames('alice@cs.stanford.edu'); // ["Stanford University"]

API

isAcademic(email: string): boolean

Returns true if the email is valid and not stoplisted, and either under a known academic TLD or associated with a known institution.

isUnderTLD(input: string): boolean

Returns true if the host is under a known academic/public-suffix TLD (supports compound TLDs like ac.uk).

isStoplisted(input: string): boolean

Returns true if the host matches a known stoplisted domain.

findSchoolNames(input: string): string[]

Returns institution names associated with the host (empty array if none).

SWOT_METADATA

Metadata about the dataset (e.g., version and record counts).