Filter Profanity in Google Sheets & Excel — =VERVE("profanityfilter", "This is a sample text that may contain inappropriate words")

What this pulls

Clean text by the row. =VERVE("profanityfilter", A2) 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, "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", "This is a sample text that may contain inappropriate words") 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?")

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?")

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.

Data.filtered
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "data.filtered")
Data.contains Profanity
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "data.containsProfanity")
Data.profanity CountPremium
=VERVE("profanityfilter", "Today is so damn hot! Why the hell would anyone go outside?", "field", "data.profanityCount")

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 a spreadsheet?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("profanityfilter", "This is a sample text that may contain inappropriate words") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.

How many credits does each Filter Profanity cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.

Can I fill a whole column at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Filter Profanity at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("profanityfilter", "This is a sample text that may contain inappropriate words") down like any spreadsheet function.

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

Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.

How current is the data?

Filter Profanity is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Filter Profanity is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

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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