Google’s Official Profanity API

So when the title says official, they actually mean "internal api, dug out of javascript source on a google affiliated site"?

What the {"response": "true"} is this {"response": "true"} thing? A {"response": "true"} cache page? Are you {"response": "true"} {"response": "true"} me?! Do you really need a {"response": "true"} JSON API to do the work of a stupid {"response": "true"} array lookup? {"response": "true"}!!!

I was hoping this was an API for generating profanity.

Why oh why does profanity ever need to be filtered out?

I once tried to create a list of basic patterns...always thought it'd be more useful than it turned out to be:

https://github.com/mogade/badwords/blob/master/en.txt

basically:

  http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=xxx

Nice, and it passes a couple of examples of the Scunthorpe Problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

My first thought was "Oh, I wonder if that means the spellcheck on my smartphone will stop substituting 'duck' when I meant to type something more profane." But after reading the article, I guess not.

A maybe condition is necessary.

see: http://www.wdyl.com/profanity?q=balls

It's publicly accessible, but I wouldn't call it official.

server dead, not in google cache