Inappropriate Content/NSFW Filter

[shaunduncan]

Using this API is amazing, but there are a few NSFW gifs lingering around. It would be nice if I could make a request with instructions to filter possibly inappropriate content.

[alexchung]

yeah. we've been talking about this. we do our best to take out nsfw gifs quickly but we're getting so many gifs a day that it's hard to keep up.

we will provide another endpoint that will return only edited gifs. this set will be much smaller than the entire database but the gifs will have been screened by our editors.

we are also putting a flag feature on our site to flag gifs. perhaps we should allow api users an endpoint to flag them?

any suggestions?

[shaunduncan]

That sounds great! It would be nice if I had the ability to report a gif as "possibly" inappropriate. If you're working on getting a flag ability on the site, I'd love if it could be part of the api. Thanks!

[gtzilla]

@shaunduncan we've added a flagged endpoint to let apps flag content. Check it out: https://github.com/giphy/GiphyAPI#flagged-endpoint-read

[benbates]

Did anything come of this? Was the edited gifs endpoint ever created? Thanks!

[samstarling]

@Gregory80: +1 on the above comment, did the ability to only get "safe" GIFs ever get added?

[heyvito]

Also looking for this feature! 👍

[zubinmehta]

+1

[namslam]

Hi everyone!

Yes this is now available! (we have a task open to update our documentation, sorry about that!)

We now follow the same structure as the MPAA rating system and support the following ratings: Y, G, PG, PG-13, and R. You can learn more about each rating here: http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/

To add a rating to your API request, simply add &rating=. Here's an example search for 'funny cat' gifs that are rated up to PG-13. Please note that by adding a rating, the results will include that rating and everything below it. So PG-13 will include PG, G, and Y gifs as well.

http://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?q=funny+cat&api_key=dc6zaTOxFJmzC&rating=pg-13

Ratings are applied by human editors so you should be safe from any NSFW content.

We also have a flagging endpoint we are using internally which we'll probably expose when we include flagging options on our website.

Hope this is helpful and let me know if you guys need anything else!

[heyvito]

👏 👍

[samstarling]

Awesome, thanks!

[austinkelleher]

👍

[namslam]

@VictorGama @samstarling @austinkelleher no problem! If you guys have any other requests feel free to hit me up at nam@giphy.com - we have a handful of undocumented endpoints (some in which will be public sooner than later) you might find useful for whatever you're working on!

[0xdevalias]

@namslam This might be a bit of a stretch, and not directly API related.. but do these filters exist for standard URL's? Or particularly, http://tv.giphy.com?

[eganc]

Hello, we have integrated GIPHY search into our app with G-rating, but continue to get pretty NSFW search results returned for some fairly plain search terms (like, "nurse"). Are G-rated gifs still reviewed and approved by human editors, or has something changed? Did you ever open up the API for flagging as inappropriate? Right now, our workaround is to have our support team flag them on the site, but it takes a while for them to be removed from the search results.

[slowizzm]

My api_key seems to only return a g rating, is this a setting by default, and if so how can I change that?