Moderate Content - Developer Platform

Dialect-aware Arabic content moderation. Understands profanity, slang, and offensive language differences across Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and MSA Arabic — catching what Western moderation APIs miss entirely.

Cost: $0.004 per request (4 credits). Semantic cache hits are free (X-NAWA-Cache: HIT).

Request

Headers

Header	Required	Description
`Authorization`	Yes	`Bearer nawa_live_sk_xxx` or `Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx`
`Content-Type`	Yes	`application/json`

Body parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`text`	string	Yes	The text to moderate. Max 5,000 characters.
`context`	string	No	Where the text appears (e.g. “youtube comment”, “product review”). Helps the model calibrate.
`strictness`	string	No	Moderation strictness: `low`, `medium`, `high`. Default: `medium`.
`platform`	string	No	Source platform: `youtube`, `instagram`, `twitter`, `facebook`.

Strictness levels:

low — only flag severe content (explicit hate speech, extreme profanity, direct threats)
medium — flag moderate and severe content (profanity, harassment, hate speech, spam)
high — flag all potentially problematic content (mild profanity, borderline content, subtle insults)

Example request

curl -X POST https://api.trynawa.com/v1/moderate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "text": "هذا محتوى رائع جدا",
    "strictness": "medium"
  }'

import { Nawa } from '@nawalabs/sdk'

const nawa = new Nawa({ apiKey: process.env.NAWA_API_KEY })

const { data, error } = await nawa.moderate({
  text: 'هذا محتوى رائع جدا',
  strictness: 'medium'
})

if (data.is_safe) {
  console.log('Content is safe')
} else {
  console.log('Flagged:', data.flags)
  console.log('Cleaned:', data.cleaned_text)
}

from nawa import Nawa

nawa = Nawa(api_key="your_api_key")

result = nawa.moderate(
    text="هذا محتوى رائع جدا",
    strictness="medium"
)

if result.data.is_safe:
    print("Content is safe")
else:
    print(f"Flagged: {result.data.flags}")
    print(f"Cleaned: {result.data.cleaned_text}")

Response

Safe content (200)

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "mod_nw_pon1yom9bkfe",
    "object": "moderation",
    "text": "هذا محتوى رائع جدا",
    "is_safe": true,
    "verdict": "safe",
    "flags": [],
    "severity": "none",
    "severity_score": 0.0,
    "language": "ar",
    "dialect": "gulf",
    "categories": {
      "profanity": false,
      "hate_speech": false,
      "harassment": false,
      "sexual": false,
      "spam": false,
      "self_harm": false,
      "violence": false
    },
    "category_scores": {
      "profanity": 0.01,
      "hate_speech": 0.00,
      "harassment": 0.02,
      "sexual": 0.00,
      "spam": 0.05,
      "self_harm": 0.00,
      "violence": 0.01
    },
    "flagged_terms": [],
    "cleaned_text": null,
    "model": "nagl-v1",
    "provider": "claude",
    "fallback_used": false,
    "cached": false,
    "cost_usd": 0.004,
    "credits_used": 4
  },
  "errors": [],
  "request_id": "req_nw_4c11w71e44cb"
}

Flagged content (200)

When content is flagged, the response includes specific flags, severity scores, and a cleaned version of the text:

{
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "id": "mod_nw_abc123def456",
    "object": "moderation",
    "text": "original text here",
    "is_safe": false,
    "verdict": "flagged",
    "flags": ["profanity", "harassment"],
    "severity": "high",
    "severity_score": 0.87,
    "language": "ar",
    "dialect": "egyptian",
    "categories": {
      "profanity": true,
      "hate_speech": false,
      "harassment": true,
      "sexual": false,
      "spam": false,
      "self_harm": false,
      "violence": false
    },
    "category_scores": {
      "profanity": 0.92,
      "hate_speech": 0.05,
      "harassment": 0.85,
      "sexual": 0.01,
      "spam": 0.03,
      "self_harm": 0.00,
      "violence": 0.08
    },
    "flagged_terms": ["term1", "term2"],
    "cleaned_text": "text with *** replacing flagged terms",
    "model": "nagl-v1",
    "provider": "claude",
    "fallback_used": false,
    "cached": false,
    "cost_usd": 0.004,
    "credits_used": 4
  },
  "errors": [],
  "request_id": "req_nw_xyz789"
}

Result fields

Field	Type	Description
`text`	string	The original input text
`is_safe`	boolean	Whether the content passed moderation
`verdict`	string	`safe` or `flagged`
`flags`	array	List of triggered category names
`severity`	string	Overall severity: `none`, `low`, `medium`, `high`
`severity_score`	number	Severity score 0—1
`language`	string	Detected language: `ar`, `en`, or `mixed`
`dialect`	string or null	Detected Arabic dialect. Null if not Arabic.
`categories`	object	Boolean flags for each moderation category
`category_scores`	object	Confidence scores 0—1 for each category
`flagged_terms`	array	Specific problematic words/phrases found
`cleaned_text`	string or null	Text with flagged terms replaced by `***`. Null if safe.
`model`	string	Model version used
`provider`	string	AI provider used. Currently always `claude`.
`fallback_used`	boolean	Whether the fallback provider was used
`cached`	boolean	Whether served from semantic cache
`cost_usd`	number	Cost in USD
`credits_used`	number	Credits deducted

Moderation categories

Category	Description
`profanity`	Swearing, vulgar language, dialect-specific profanity
`hate_speech`	Content targeting groups based on race, religion, ethnicity, etc.
`harassment`	Personal attacks, bullying, intimidation
`sexual`	Sexually explicit or suggestive content
`spam`	Promotional content, repetitive text, link spam
`self_harm`	Content promoting or describing self-harm
`violence`	Threats, glorification of violence, graphic descriptions

Examples

Safe Gulf Arabic content

Input: “هذا محتوى رائع جدا” Result: is_safe: true, verdict: safe, severity: none

curl -X POST https://api.trynawa.com/v1/moderate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "هذا محتوى رائع جدا", "strictness": "medium"}'

Spam detection

Input: “اشتركوا في قناتي الرابط في البايو!! فولو فولو فولو!!” Result: is_safe: false, flags: ["spam"], severity: low

curl -X POST https://api.trynawa.com/v1/moderate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "اشتركوا في قناتي الرابط في البايو!! فولو فولو فولو!!", "strictness": "medium"}'

High strictness catching mild content

Input: Borderline content that passes on medium but flags on high strictness

curl -X POST https://api.trynawa.com/v1/moderate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "your text here", "strictness": "high"}'

With platform context

Input: Moderate a YouTube comment with platform context

curl -X POST https://api.trynawa.com/v1/moderate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer nawa_test_sk_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text": "your text here", "strictness": "medium", "platform": "youtube", "context": "youtube comment"}'

Error responses

Status	Type	When
400	`invalid_request_error`	Missing `text`. Invalid strictness or platform. Text too long.
401	`authentication_error`	Invalid or missing API key
402	`insufficient_credits`	No credits remaining
429	`rate_limit_error`	Rate limit exceeded
500	`api_error`	Internal or provider error

​Request

​Headers

​Body parameters

​Example request

​Response

​Safe content (200)

​Flagged content (200)

​Result fields

​Moderation categories

​Examples

​Error responses

Request

Headers

Body parameters

Example request

Response

Safe content (200)

Flagged content (200)

Result fields

Moderation categories

Examples

Error responses