CenSwear is a Python based profanity filter API. CenSwear is a simple, free, and reliable language understanding API designed to recognize and remove profanity, obscenity, and other unwanted text. It’s a technology you can swear by!

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• Python
  

• Profanity detection and filtering from texts

  • The API detects and censors swear words and profanities from chat and text messages based on an internal profanity list.

• Multilingual

  • We’ve designed CenSwear in a way that it detetcts profanities in multiple languages

• Real-time censoring of expletives

  • The web service also provides real-time redaction of swear words while emails and documents are being typed.

• Fast, accurate, reliable

  • CenSwear ensures that not one single offensive message slips through its filters, creating a safe and productive environment for the users.

├── README.md          <- The top-level README for developers using this project.
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├── requirements.txt   <- The requirements file for reproducing the environment
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├── test
│  └── app_test.py     <- The python script for testing the app
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├── LICENSE
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├── Procfile           <- for heroku deployment
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└── src
    ├── __init__.py 
    ├── app.py         <- Main python file containig the flask app
    ├── templates
    │   ├── base.html
    │   └── home.html
    └── static
        ├── assets     <- contains svg images and backgrounds 
        └── css        <- The css files for the web app

To use this project, follow these steps:

• Make a .env file having same structure as .env.sample inside the src folder
• Fill in the FILTER_WORDLIST_URL and CLEAN_WORDLIST_URL variables
• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/MLSA-SRM/CenSwear.git

• Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Go to the app root folder

cd src

• Run the App python app.py or flask run