HACKER Q&A
📣 MiserableLie

Please recommend me an NSFW content detection API


I've been trying out Google's Cloud Vision API (https://cloud.google.com/vision) as a means of detecting NSFW content in user-submitted images but am finding it surprisingly unreliable. A large proportion of requests appear to just randomly hang before timing out with no error.

I'm looking for recommendations for an alternative solution which can flag images containing pornography, gore, violence, etc. All the bad stuff.

What should I be looking at? Are there any I should avoid?



👤 houseatrielah
You can play around with Wingman Jr with a few clicks. I remember it being decent. Depends on what your acceptable error rate is.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wingman-jr-fi...


👤 TDiblik
If you need a quick & dirty solution (that works for now), I suggest using [An Algorithm for Nudity Detection - by R. Ap-Apid](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249767252_An_Algori...). It has multiple oss implementations in [js](https://github.com/pa7/nude.js), [python](https://github.com/hhatto/nude.py), [ruby](https://github.com/rummelonp/nude.rb), [go](https://github.com/koyachi/go-nude), and you could probably find one in the language you're using (or implement it yourself). It works well enoughâ„¢