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Questions tagged [profanity]

A sacrilegious word, or more generally an offensive word. In the SO context, a word that may be filtered out of forum postings etc.

Profanity is something that is profane, a synonym of sacrilegious. From the Latin profānus: outside the temple, from pro- + fānum temple

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Remove profanity censor from Google Speech Recognition

I am trying to convert speech to text in an iOS application using Google's Speech to Text API. I am simply sending some audio data to the URL "https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?xjerr=1&client=chromium&lang=en-US" and it is returning me…
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Regex - Match ( only ) words with mixed chars

i'm writing my anti spam/badwors filter and i need if is possible, to match (detect) only words formed by mixed characters like: fr1&nd$ and not friends is this possible with regex!? best regards!
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How to check if a string contains a word from a list

I want the user to input lyrics to the program (this will later be extended to searching a website, but i dont currently want help with that) and the program will tell me if the inputted info contains a word from a list. banned_words =…
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OpenFire Content Filter using REGEX

Hi i am currently implementing the following regex to prevent user submitting contents which contains profanity as describe within the regex (?i)(pecan|tie|shirt|hole|ontology|meme|pelagic|cock|duck|slot|anjing…
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Profanity checking for promotional codes

I have a slightly unusual profanity-related question. Now we're used to dealing with profanity-filtering of user-generated content — any method is imperfect, but products like CleanSpeak and WebPurify do a good-enough job. The problem we have at the…
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How to remove R rated movies from TheMovieDatabase API

i am working with theMovieDatabase api I want to get the movies by name, luckily the functionality for that is working perfectly but now i am trying to add profanity to the data that i get back, some of the data is clearly 18+, but the adult…
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Audio profanity filter using python

I am trying to write a python code in which users inputs a video file and program will mute/beep the curse/bad words in it and outputs a filtered video file, basically a profanity filter. Firstly, I converted the video file into .wav format and then…
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profanity check error cannot import name 'joblib' from 'sklearn.externals'

I have a env that I just Installed profanity_check but when I run my code I get a error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "bot.py", line 1, in from profanity_check import predict, predict_prob File…
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Filter out Bad Words From a Text File In Python

I am wanting to read the contents of a text file and filter out the bad word from it. {UPDATED} So I updated my python file after what you told me but right now I am getting a no module error. When I run pip3 install profanity_filter it gives me a…
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check if value is in array

This is probably v.easy but my php is very rusty. I need to implement a bad word filter...I currently have this: if(!in_array($_POST['Name'],$profanities)) { echo $row['Name']; } ...and an profanities array with bad words in it. Problem is I want…
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CertificateError: hostname 'www.wdylike.appspot.com' doesn't match

I am doing the udacity course on learning python. Basically, this project is supposed to check for profanity in a file. We use the website "https://wdylike.appspot.com/?q=" to do this. The website checks for profanity and prints a Boolean value if…
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How to censor/unlock content in a Kid-safe (4+) app?

I'm working on an unabridged dictionary app. My goal is to release a 4+ rated app which schools can freely purchase. The nature of language is that some words are profane, disparaging, vulgar, or otherwise offensive. I have carefully identified…
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How to require full (not partial) match with regex for a bad word filter?

I'm writing a very basic commenting system and want to implement a simple, efficient bad words filter. I'm aware of the problems associated with bad word filters and realize it's basically impossible to write one that keeps misspellings and…
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Regex for catching word with special characters between letters

I am new to regex, I'm programming an advanced profanity filter for a commenting feature (in C#). Just to save time, I know that all filters can be fooled, no matter how good they are, you don't have to tell me that. I'm just trying to make it a bit…
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unescape not working in profanity filter

I am trying to make a profanity filter with javascript. I was successful but when I encode the bad words I can't get it to work. I have been working on this for two days straight. I have tried to unescape the code in a variable and then use the…
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