The social media are the most popular vector to transmit messages, ideas, marketing material, advertising, etc.
Those who publish their own content or other people´s content need to know with certainty that their publications are clean of unwanted language. Thus they demand from developers easy-to-use tools to scan texts.
Developers devise customized software for the purpose using as a strong basis the most recommendable aplication: Bad Words Filter API. This is a detect bad words API that being powered with AI and NLP can spot offensive, vulgar or profane words.
This text moderation API gives users the choice of spotting, eliminating or substituting the bad words by an asterisk or by a provided words or character. The efficiency and accuracy of the tool makes the user certain that all content that is submitted to this scan will be pristine. This fact will guarantee not only the purity of the language, but also the correct register that will allow to keep their reputation, keep customers or followers and attract new readers.
As stated above, the filter uses NLP to decode the text into logical words without considering punctuation, case, formatting, etc. Word transformations are also applied so as to detect obfuscation of bad words like repeating characters, spurious whitespace, and special characters. This cursing filter API performs detection and extraction of bad words, as well as censorship of bad words from the supplied text.
The user inserts a text string or the link of a text, and then the API returns a list of all the bad words recognized. The censor bad words API filters any bad words in an article by any content creators that the user wants to upload on their site. The character filter API maintains an environment clean from bad words on their site. It prevents users from including offensive nicknames. It also scans text on integrated chat so as to avoid toxicity with ease.
This text moderation API is an excellent tool for scanning text destined to formal targets in the field of education, sciences, governmental agencies, law enforcement, marketing, to make the author or publisher sure of content that is correct and so as to avoid toxicity. The tool is constantly being trained and enlarging its database of dirty words, as AI is powering it.
How To Get Started With The API
Once you count on a subscription on Zyla API Hub marketplace, just start using, connecting and managing APIs. Subscribe to Bad Words Filter API by simply clicking on the button “Start Free Trial”. Then meet the needed endpoint and simply provide the search reference. Make the API call by pressing the button “test endpoint” and see the results on display. The AI will process and retrieve an accurate report using this data.
Bad Words Filter API examines the input and processes the request using the resources available (AI and ML). In no time at all the application will retrieve an accurate response. The API has one endpoint to access the information: Content Filter, where you insert the text you need to scan for bad words. If the input is “After what he said about black people, I can only say that he’s a racist piece of shit“, in the endpoint, the response will look like this:
{
"censored-content": "After what he said about black people, I can only say that he’s a racist piece of ****",
"is-bad": true,
"bad-words-list": [
"shit"
],
"bad-words-total": 1
}