Multilingual Profanity Filter

Introduction

This project provides a profanity filter that supports multiple languages. It is designed to be easy to use and integrate into various applications. The filter uses a comprehensive list of profane words for each supported language, allowing it to effectively identify and filter out inappropriate content.

It uses the List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words as its primary source for profane words, which is a widely used repository of such words in multiple languages.

Table of Contents 🗂

• Supported Languages 🌐
• Installation
• Usage
• Citation
• Contributing
• License

Supported Languages 🌐

The profanity filter currently supports the same languages as the LDNOOBWV2 repository, you can find it here.

Installation ⚙️

This package is available on PyPI, so you can install it using pip:

pip install multilingual-profanity

Usage ⌨️

Here's a simple example of how to use the ProfanityFilter class:

from multilingual_profanity import ProfanityFilter

pf = ProfanityFilter("nl")
print(pf.is_clean("fiets")) # Output: True
print(pf.is_clean("kanker")) # Output: False

Citation ✍️

If you use this project in your research, please cite as follows:

@misc{profanity_filter,
  author  = {Stephan Akkerman},
  title   = {Profanity Filter},
  year    = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/StephanAkkerman/profanity-filter}}
}

Contributing 🛠

Contributions are welcome! If you have a feature request, bug report, or proposal for code refactoring, please feel free to open an issue on GitHub. We appreciate your help in improving this project.

License 📜

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.