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GET /v1/clean

Censor profanity

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api.oanor.com/profanity-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/profanity-api/v1/clean" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/profanity-api/v1/clean", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/profanity-api/v1/clean");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/profanity-api/v1/clean",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "cleaned": "this **** is great",
        "matches": [
            "shit"
        ],
        "original": "this shit is great",
        "masked_count": 1
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-02T16:52:05.110Z",
        "request_id": "55e14e75-8cb9-42fd-a02e-6027f5f73410"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Censor profanity",
    "success": true
}