# Profanity Checker (`louisdeconinck/profanity-checker`) Actor

Clean text fast! 🚀 This actor removes profanity, obscenity, & unwanted words. Perfect for content moderation & data sanitization. Built-in & custom lists. Try it now! ✨

- **URL**: https://apify.com/louisdeconinck/profanity-checker.md
- **Developed by:** [Louis Deconinck](https://apify.com/louisdeconinck) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 3 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

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**

```json
[
    {
        "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:**

```json
{
    "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](https://console.apify.com/sign-up)
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

### 🌟 Start for Free

Ready to start scraping Instagram posts? [Try the Actor for free](https://apify.com?fpr=7p4wu) and get:

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

### 🔍 More Scraping Solutions

Check out my other scrapers on [my Apify profile](https://apify.com/louisdeconinck?fpr=7p4wu) for:

- Other social media platforms
- E-commerce websites
- Business directories
- And more!

### 🛠️ Custom Scraper Development

Need a custom Instagram scraping solution? I can help! Contact me for:

- Custom data fields
- Specific filtering requirements
- Integration with your systems
- Specialized reporting needs

# Actor input Schema

## `texts` (type: `array`):

List of texts to check for profanity

## `add` (type: `string`):

Additional words to check for profanity

## `fillText` (type: `string`):

Text to fill the profanity with

## `fillChar` (type: `string`):

Character to fill the profanity with

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "texts": [
    "This is a piece of text",
    "This is another piece of shit"
  ]
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "texts": [
        "This is a piece of text",
        "This is another piece of shit"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("louisdeconinck/profanity-checker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "texts": [
        "This is a piece of text",
        "This is another piece of shit",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("louisdeconinck/profanity-checker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "texts": [
    "This is a piece of text",
    "This is another piece of shit"
  ]
}' |
apify call louisdeconinck/profanity-checker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,louisdeconinck/profanity-checker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KvqaDOHiTrTW1luFh/builds/iyfVlnFi6BgW7ckIe/openapi.json