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Profanity Filter API

The Profanity Filter API detects and censors swear words, bad words, and profanity in any text.

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/v1/profanityfilter GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/profanityfilter

Returns the censored version (bad words replaced with asterisks) of any given text and whether the text contains profanity.

Parameters

  • text  required

    Input text. Maximum 1000 characters.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request Live Demo!

text

Try this API endpoint with all available parameters in our API playground

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/profanityfilter?text=damn it!

Headers

X-Api-KeyLog in or sign up to get your API Key

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 { "original": "damn it!", "censored": "**** it!", "has_profanity": true }

Code Examples

1 2 curl -X GET "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/profanityfilter?text=hello%20world" \ -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.