PurgoMalum

About PurgoMalum

PurgoMalum is a free RESTful web service for filtering profanity, obscenity and other unwanted text from input strings. It works via a simple HTTP GET request with a required "text" parameter, and can return results as plain text, XML or JSON depending on the method called (containsprofanity, xml, json, plain). The filter checks input against an internal profanity list, recognizes common character substitutions (such as "@" for "a" or "$" for "s"), and excludes "safe words" that contain profane substrings but are themselves innocuous (e.g. "class").

The service accepts optional parameters for customization: "add" to append up to 10 additional words (or 200 characters) to the profanity list for a given request, "fill_text" to specify custom replacement text (up to 20 characters) for matched words, and "fill_char" to specify a single replacement character. When no fill option is specified, matched words are replaced with asterisks by default.

This is suited for developers who need to integrate profanity filtering into applications through a lightweight API call rather than implementing filtering logic themselves.

Key features

• Filters profanity and obscenity from text via a RESTful web service
• Recognizes character substitutions like "@" for "a" and "$" for "s"
• Returns results in plain text, XML, or JSON
• Supports custom words added to the profanity list via the "add" parameter
• Customizable replacement text or fill character for filtered words
• "containsprofanity" method checks if text matches the profanity list without filtering it

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