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A Python 3 module for the Akismet spam comment-spam-detection web service.

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pykismet
========

A Python 3 Akismet client library.

## Supported API

The Following Akismet API Calls are currently supported:
* Comment Check
* Submit Ham
* Submit Spam

## Unsupported API

The following Akismet API Calls are not yet supported:
* Key Verification

## Installation

1. Signup for Akismet and get yourself an API key at http://akismet.com/plans/

2. Install this library:

pip install pykismet

3. Make some calls to Akismet (see example below to get started)

## Example

Import and instantiate Pykismet.

from pykismet3 import Akismet
import os

a = Akismet(blog_url="http://your.blog/url",
user_agent="My Awesome Web App/0.0.1")

a.api_key="YOUR_AKISMET_API_KEY"

### Comment Check

a.check({'user_ip': os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'],
'user_agent': os.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
'referrer': os.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER', 'unknown'),
'comment_content': 'I LIEK YOUR WEB SITE',
'comment_author': 'Comment Author',
'is_test': 1,
})

### Submit Ham

a.submit_ham({'user_ip': os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'],
'user_agent': os.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
'referrer': os.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER', 'unknown'),
'comment_content': 'I LIEK YOUR WEB SITE',
'comment_author': 'Comment Author',
'is_test': 1,
})

### Submit Spam

a.submit_spam({'user_ip': os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'],
'user_agent': os.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],
'referrer': os.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER', 'unknown'),
'comment_content': 'I LIEK YOUR WEB SITE',
'comment_author': 'Comment Author',
'is_test': 1,
})

## Documentation

The examples above show you pretty much everything you need to know.

For a full list of supported parameters for each API call, see http://akismet.com/development/api/

The code is only ~150 lines long anyway, so just look at '''pykismet.py''' if you aren't sure about something.

## Bugs

Patches to fix bugs and implement missing features welcome! Please make a pull request.

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