Access scope variables from a filter in AngularJS

I am passing date value to my custom filter this way:

angular.module('myapp').
  filter('filterReceiptsForDate', function () {
    return function (input, date) {
      var out = _.filter(input, function (item) {
        return moment(item.value.created).format('YYYY-MM-DD') == date;
      });
      return out;
    }
  });

I would like to inject a couple of scope variables there too, like what I can do in directives. Is that possible to do this without having to passing these vars explicitly as function arguments?

Apparently you can.

Usually you would pass scope variables to the filter as function parameter:

function MyCtrl($scope){
  $scope.currentDate = new Date();
  $scope.dateFormat = 'short';
}

<span ng-controller="MyCtrl">{{currentDate | date:dateFormat}}</span> // --> 7/11/13 4:57 PM

But, to pass the current scope in, you'd have to pass this:

<span ng-controller="MyCtrl">{{currentDate | date:this}}</span>

and this will be a reference to current scope:

Simplified:

app.controller('AppController',
    function($scope) {
      $scope.var1 = 'This is some text.';
      $scope.var2 = 'And this is appended with custom filter.';
    }
  );
  

app.filter('filterReceiptsForDate', function () {
  return function (input, scope) {
    return input + ' <strong>' + scope.var2 + '</strong>';
  };
});

<div ng-bind-html-unsafe="var1 | filterReceiptsForDate:this"></div>
<!-- Results in: "This is some text. <strong>And this is appended with custom filter.</strong>" -->

PLUNKER

Warning:

1. Be careful with this and use scope only to read the values inside the filter, because otherwise you will easily find your self in $digest loop.
2. Filters that require such a "heavy" dependency (the whole scope) tend to be very difficult to test.

I found that this references local $scope. Not sure if this is safe way of accessing it.