Filter Profanity in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Clean text by the row. Masks profanity and flags whether a cell contained any — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

profanityfilter.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("profanityfilter", A2, "field", "isProfane")

Text

Is Profane

Filtered Text

Mask

Trimmed

Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?

TRUE

Today is so **** hot! Why the **** would a…

FALSE

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Clean a column of text

Fill =VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "isProfane") beside messy text and get the normalized, analyzed, or translated version back — data cleaning without leaving the grid.

Analyze at scale

Score or classify a whole column of responses, reviews, or messages in one fill instead of one-by-one.

Compose with other formulas

Nest Filter Profanity's output inside your existing SUM, IF, or CONCAT logic like any other cell value.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "isProfane")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "isProfane")

Optional inputs

Tune the result by adding name=value before the field argument — in any order. Leave one out and its default applies.

mask
The mask to replace the profanity words with. Should be a Single Character (e.g., *)
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "mask", "*")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Filtered Text
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "filteredText")
Is Profane
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "isProfane")
Profane WordsPremium
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "profaneWords")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Filter Profanity, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Filter Profanity into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "filteredText") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Filter Profanity?

Filter Profanity returns filteredText and isProfane — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I narrow what Filter Profanity returns?

Yes — Filter Profanity takes "mask" as optional inputs. They go in as "name", value pairs after the required ones, in any order, so =VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "mask", "*") shapes the result without changing anything else.

Which Filter Profanity fields need a paid plan?

profaneWords is included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.

Can I fill a whole column of Filter Profanity at once?

Yes. Put your text values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Filter Profanity cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Filter Profanity work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Filter Profanity

Clean a column of text

Analyze at scale

Compose with other formulas

Filter Profanity, answered

Put Filter Profanity in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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