Profanity Checker

This actor checks text content for profanity. It's a simple and effective way to filter and remove profanity, obscenity, and other unwanted text from your content.

🎯 Use Cases

• Content Moderation: Filter user-generated content for inappropriate language
• Text Sanitization: Clean up text data before publishing
• Comment Filtering: Automatically check and filter comment streams
• Data Processing: Process large volumes of text data for profanity
• Content Safety: Ensure content meets community guidelines

✨ Features

• Bulk Processing: Process multiple text inputs in one run
• Default Profanity List: Comes with a built-in list of common profane words
• Custom Profanity List: Add your own words to check
• Flexible Replacement: Choose how to replace detected profanity
• Detailed Output: Get both original and filtered text
• Profanity Detection: Know if text contains any profanity

📤 Output

The actor provides detailed information for each processed text:

• orginalText: Original text that was provided in the input
• containsProfanity: Boolean check if profanity was detected
• newText: Updated text with profanity filtered out

Example output

[
    {
        "originalText": "This is a piece of text",
        "containsProfanity": false,
        "newText": "This is a piece of text"
    },
    {
        "originalText": "This is another piece of shit",
        "containsProfanity": true,
        "newText": "This is another piece of ****"
    }
]

📥 Input

Input is provided as JSON with the following properties:

• texts (required): Array of text strings to check for profanity
• add (optional): Additional comma-separated words to add to profanity list (max 10 words or 200 chars)
• fillText (optional): Text to replace profanity with (max 20 chars)
• fillChar (optional): Single character to replace profanity with (fills to length of word, ignored when fillText is provided)

Example Input:

{
    "texts": [
        "This is a piece of text",
        "This is another piece of text"
    ],
    "add": "word1,word2",
    "fillText": "[REMOVED]",
    "fillChar": "*"
}

🚀 Usage

1. Get started: Create an Apify account
2. Input configuration: Provide the texts you want to check and any optional parameters
3. Run the actor: Click "Start" to begin processing
4. Get results: Download results in JSON format or access via API

💡 Integration Options

• Webhooks: Get notified when your runs complete
• API: Integrate with your applications using the Apify API
• Schedules: Run periodic content checks
• Workflows: Chain with other actors for complex content processing

📝 Notes

• The actor recognizes character alternates (e.g., "@" as "a", "$" as "s")
• The service includes a "safe words" list to prevent false positives
• Maximum 10 custom words can be added to the profanity list
• Replacement text is limited to 20 characters

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• Scalable and reliable data collection
• Regular updates to maintain compatibility
• Technical support when you need it
• Flexible output formats

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