Profanity Filter API

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

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

Sample Response

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

Code Examples

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 import requests text = 'Damn it!' api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/profanityfilter?text={}'.format(text) response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}) if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok: print(response.text) else: print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)

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.