This plugin brings to you ability to control message in your chat provided from any source. You can hide annoying message of plugin (forever or using cooldown to display it), change any message to another. You can even use MessageFilter as translation tool for plugins that not provides translation mechanics by itself.
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Why I need this plugin?
Features
- You would like to hide some spamming message print by plugin you use at your server;
- You would like to replace one message to another;
- You going to translate message of plugin but that plugin is not providing you language-file to edit;
How it works
- Hiding messages
- Replacing messages
- Cooldown for message (for example, you don't like to lot of same message, and going to see only one of them during one minute)
- Regex (and other types of string comparison) supported
All rules added to MessageFilter store in files in "MessageFilter/rules" folder. You can add, modify or remove rules using command or by editing rule files.
Every rule base on some parameters:
When plugin (or other source) is sending message, this message is controlled by MessageFilter and changed according to defined rules. Player will see replaced message instead of original. This methods allows even to translate a plugins that not provides built-in translation for your language. You just need to find messages and create rules to replace it. Here is rule file example: http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/message-filter/pages/main/rule-file-example/
- Type — defines the method which will used to determine text in message (before display it on screen). There are five types:
- EQUAL — case insensitive compare (Example: "Aaaa Bbbb" will be equal to "aaaa bbbb")
- CONTAINS — find substring in input-message
- START — check if message starts with provided text
- END — check if message ends with provided text
- REGEX — using regular expression to find matches
- message-mask — defines input mask, that will used to find matches in original message
- replace-to — defines replacement. Replacements supports placeholders %word1% ... %wordN% the will be replaced with conforming word from original message
- cooldown-time — time defined in format similar to time format used in ReActions plugin. Cooldown used to set up time-limit for displaying annoying message. For example, if cooldown time is set to 5 seconds. And "replace-to" mask is empty. Annoying message will displayed only once per five seconds.
Commands
Main command of plugin is msgfilter (aliases: mfilter, filter).
Creating rules
- /msgfilter help — hmm... h
- /msgfilter add <RuleId> [GroupId] — create new rule
- /msgfilter set <RuleId> type|input|output|cooldown|group <Value> — set parameter (type, input mask, output mask, cooldown time or group) to <Value>
- /msgfilter remove <RuleId> — remove rule
- /msgfilter list [Mask] [PageNumber] — show list of rules
- /msgfilter info <RuleId> — display rule parameters
- /msgfilter save <GroupId> [<Number>|<Time>] — save message into file <GroupId>.yml.
- /msgfilter reload — reload rules
- /msgfilter test — test MessageFilter
You can create new rules using: command line, incoming chat message and manully editing file.
Examples:
Using commands
Save incoming chat message
- /msgfilter add newrule
- /msgfilter set newrule type EQUAL
- /msgfilter set newrule input this is the input message
- /msgfilter set newrule output &6this is the output message
Manual configuration
- /msgfilter save test1 — save next (only one) incoming message to file test1.yml
- /msgfilter save test2 15 — save next 15 incoming messages to file test1.yml
- /msgfilter save test2 10m — save all incoming messages during the 10 minutes to file test1.yml
MessageFilter supports multiple rules definition files. It's a "YAML" fie (*.yml) located in "rules" folder. You can edit (or create new) this files manually. Here is example:
Code (Text):roadprotector: # rule Id
type: EQUAL # rule type
message-mask: '&3[RP] &cThis place is protected!' # incoming message (with color code)
replace-to: '&6Здесь нельзя ломать и строить!' #outgoing (translated) message
cooldown-time: '' # cooldown time
use-formating: true # use formatting (colors)
removejoing: # rule Id
type: REGEX #rule type
message-mask: '\w+ joined the server\.' # incoming message, I'm going to hide it
replace-to: '' # Empty line
cooldown-time: ''
use-formating: false # ignore formatting
annoying:
type: EQUAL
message-mask: 'You can\'t build here!'
replace-to: '' # Empty line
cooldown-time: '5s' #You will see this message only once during the five seconds
use-formating: false # ignore formatting
MessageFilter self-test
You can use command /msgfilter test to be sure that MessageFilter works fine. Just type this command in chat. If you receive message "MessageFilter test failed!" usually you need to install or update ProtocolLib.
Permissions
messagefilter.config — only one permission to access commands
messagefilter.test — perform test of MessageFilter when player joins the server
Dependencies
This plugin requires ProtocoLib installed on your server.
Update checker
MessageFilter includes a update checker that use your server internet connection. Update checker will every hour check the dev.bukkit.org to find new released version of plugin and you can easy disable it: just set parameter "version-check" to "false" in config.yml.

MessageFilter 0.3.3
Remove, modify or translate any message from any source
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Recent Updates
- Download link updated Jul 8, 2017
Recent Reviews
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ElTodoFull
- 4/5,
It's almost perfect, but it fails to replace sometimes, and quite often (reference pic in discussion)
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FabrizioPro321
- 1/5,
Horrible HORRIBLE HORRIBLE SOLO DA ERRORES EL PLUGIN RAZON 1 DE PORQUE EL RATING AL USAR EL PLUGIN ALGUNAS PARTES SE TRADUCEN Y OTRAS NO Y TODO BIEN ESCRITO Y SIGUIENDO TODO EL TUTORIAL. 2 AL QUERER ELIMINAR LA RULE /MSGFILTER REMOVE Y PRUEBO AVER SI SE ELIMINARON MIS CONFIGURACIONES Y NADA SIGUE AHI PONIENDO /MSGFILTER RELOAD REINICIANDO SERVER Y TODO Y NADA, 3 ELIMINO EL PLUGIN PARA QUE SE QUITEN MIS CONFIGURACIONES QUE HICE Y NADA TUBE QUE ELIMINAR TODA LA CONFIGURACION DEL WORLDGUARD PARA VER SI FUNCIONABAA ASIIIIIIII Y FUNCIONO MALISIMO PLUGIN HORRIBLE 000000
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Nuxoria
- 5/5,
Very useful plugin, works fine :)! No problems with plugin, very good for a free plugin!
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danil20028191
- 5/5,
Some methods of injecting in chat not working. Latest version of worldGuard WorldEdit messages can't be replaced by this plugin. Please, update
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aguadelamiseria
- 5/5,
Working fine in my 1.15.2 server. Great plugin, makes the chat feel less annoying.
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AfkF24
- 5/5,
A great plugin which I've been using for many years now. Still works without any issues on 1.15.2, even without it officially being updated. Highly recommended.
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VINIFARIAXD
- 5/5,
Very good, but I would really like to see support for links, it would be very useful.
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Romuux
- 5/5,
Work like a charm under 1.14.4 Spigot/Paper server. Great plugin used since many years for hardcoded plugin translation and more !
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jacked1900
- 2/5,
doesn't work on my serwer spigot 1.14.4 i don't why ..............................
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HoneyBearc
- 5/5,
Easy and very useful, really nice plugin make my server message more single!
thanks good job! keep it up!
1.14.4. Can be used