--- title: "Classifies if text and/or image inputs are potentially harmful. Learn more in the [moderation guide](/docs/guides/moderation)." url: "https://kongair.terwilligar.com/apis/openai-api-2-3-0/versions/ea92d048-c746-4ead-a6a8-da28d93137d1/operations/createModeration" --- > Full API specification: https://kongair.terwilligar.com/apis/openai-api-2-3-0/versions/ea92d048-c746-4ead-a6a8-da28d93137d1.md # Classifies if text and/or image inputs are potentially harmful. Learn more in the [moderation guide](/docs/guides/moderation). `POST` `/moderations` Operation ID: `createModeration` ## Request body (required) Content types: `application/json` ## Responses - `200` - OK ## OpenAPI definition ```yaml openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: OpenAI API version: 2.3.0 servers: - url: https://api.openai.com/v1 paths: /moderations: post: operationId: createModeration tags: - Moderations summary: | Classifies if text and/or image inputs are potentially harmful. Learn more in the [moderation guide](/docs/guides/moderation). requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: "#/components/schemas/CreateModerationRequest" responses: "200": description: OK content: application/json: schema: $ref: "#/components/schemas/CreateModerationResponse" x-oaiMeta: name: Create moderation group: moderations returns: A [moderation](/docs/api-reference/moderations/object) object. examples: - title: Single string request: curl: | curl https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "input": "I want to kill them." }' python: > from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI() moderation = client.moderations.create(input="I want to kill them.") print(moderation) node.js: > import OpenAI from "openai"; const openai = new OpenAI(); async function main() { const moderation = await openai.moderations.create({ input: "I want to kill them." }); console.log(moderation); } main(); response: | { "id": "modr-AB8CjOTu2jiq12hp1AQPfeqFWaORR", "model": "text-moderation-007", "results": [ { "flagged": true, "categories": { "sexual": false, "hate": false, "harassment": true, "self-harm": false, "sexual/minors": false, "hate/threatening": false, "violence/graphic": false, "self-harm/intent": false, "self-harm/instructions": false, "harassment/threatening": true, "violence": true }, "category_scores": { "sexual": 0.000011726012417057063, "hate": 0.22706663608551025, "harassment": 0.5215635299682617, "self-harm": 2.227119921371923e-6, "sexual/minors": 7.107352217872176e-8, "hate/threatening": 0.023547329008579254, "violence/graphic": 0.00003391829886822961, "self-harm/intent": 1.646940972932498e-6, "self-harm/instructions": 1.1198755256458526e-9, "harassment/threatening": 0.5694745779037476, "violence": 0.9971134662628174 } } ] } - title: Image and text request: curl: > curl https://api.openai.com/v1/moderations \ -X POST \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "model": "omni-moderation-latest", "input": [ { "type": "text", "text": "...text to classify goes here..." }, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://example.com/image.png" } } ] }' python: > from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI() response = client.moderations.create( model="omni-moderation-latest", input=[ {"type": "text", "text": "...text to classify goes here..."}, { "type": "image_url", "image_url": { "url": "https://example.com/image.png", # can also use base64 encoded image URLs # "url": "data:image/jpeg;base64,abcdefg..." } }, ], ) print(response) node.js: > import OpenAI from "openai"; const openai = new OpenAI(); const moderation = await openai.moderations.create({ model: "omni-moderation-latest", input: [ { type: "text", text: "...text to classify goes here..." }, { type: "image_url", image_url: { url: "https://example.com/image.png" // can also use base64 encoded image URLs // url: "data:image/jpeg;base64,abcdefg..." } } ], }); console.log(moderation); response: | { "id": "modr-0d9740456c391e43c445bf0f010940c7", "model": "omni-moderation-latest", "results": [ { "flagged": true, "categories": { "harassment": true, "harassment/threatening": true, "sexual": false, "hate": false, "hate/threatening": false, "illicit": false, "illicit/violent": false, "self-harm/intent": false, "self-harm/instructions": false, "self-harm": false, "sexual/minors": false, "violence": true, "violence/graphic": true }, "category_scores": { "harassment": 0.8189693396524255, "harassment/threatening": 0.804985420696006, "sexual": 1.573112165348997e-6, "hate": 0.007562942636942845, "hate/threatening": 0.004208854591835476, "illicit": 0.030535955153511665, "illicit/violent": 0.008925306722380033, "self-harm/intent": 0.00023023930975076432, "self-harm/instructions": 0.0002293869201073356, "self-harm": 0.012598046106750154, "sexual/minors": 2.212566909570261e-8, "violence": 0.9999992735124786, "violence/graphic": 0.843064871157054 }, "category_applied_input_types": { "harassment": [ "text" ], "harassment/threatening": [ "text" ], "sexual": [ "text", "image" ], "hate": [ "text" ], "hate/threatening": [ "text" ], "illicit": [ "text" ], "illicit/violent": [ "text" ], "self-harm/intent": [ "text", "image" ], "self-harm/instructions": [ "text", "image" ], "self-harm": [ "text", "image" ], "sexual/minors": [ "text" ], "violence": [ "text", "image" ], "violence/graphic": [ "text", "image" ] } } ] } security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: schemas: CreateModerationRequest: type: object properties: input: description: > Input (or inputs) to classify. Can be a single string, an array of strings, or an array of multi-modal input objects similar to other models. oneOf: - type: string description: A string of text to classify for moderation. default: "" example: I want to kill them. - type: array description: An array of strings to classify for moderation. items: type: string default: "" example: I want to kill them. - type: array description: An array of multi-modal inputs to the moderation model. items: x-oaiExpandable: true oneOf: - type: object description: An object describing an image to classify. properties: type: description: Always `image_url`. type: string enum: - image_url x-stainless-const: true image_url: type: object description: Contains either an image URL or a data URL for a base64 encoded image. properties: url: type: string description: Either a URL of the image or the base64 encoded image data. format: uri example: https://example.com/image.jpg required: - url required: - type - image_url - type: object description: An object describing text to classify. properties: type: description: Always `text`. type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true text: description: A string of text to classify. type: string example: I want to kill them required: - type - text x-oaiExpandable: true model: description: | The content moderation model you would like to use. Learn more in [the moderation guide](/docs/guides/moderation), and learn about available models [here](/docs/models#moderation). nullable: false default: omni-moderation-latest example: omni-moderation-2024-09-26 anyOf: - type: string - type: string enum: - omni-moderation-latest - omni-moderation-2024-09-26 - text-moderation-latest - text-moderation-stable x-oaiTypeLabel: string required: - input CreateModerationResponse: type: object description: Represents if a given text input is potentially harmful. properties: id: type: string description: The unique identifier for the moderation request. model: type: string description: The model used to generate the moderation results. results: type: array description: A list of moderation objects. items: type: object properties: flagged: type: boolean description: Whether any of the below categories are flagged. categories: type: object description: A list of the categories, and whether they are flagged or not. properties: hate: type: boolean description: Content that expresses, incites, or promotes hate based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or caste. Hateful content aimed at non-protected groups (e.g., chess players) is harassment. hate/threatening: type: boolean description: Hateful content that also includes violence or serious harm towards the targeted group based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or caste. harassment: type: boolean description: Content that expresses, incites, or promotes harassing language towards any target. harassment/threatening: type: boolean description: Harassment content that also includes violence or serious harm towards any target. illicit: type: boolean nullable: true description: Content that includes instructions or advice that facilitate the planning or execution of wrongdoing, or that gives advice or instruction on how to commit illicit acts. For example, "how to shoplift" would fit this category. illicit/violent: type: boolean nullable: true description: Content that includes instructions or advice that facilitate the planning or execution of wrongdoing that also includes violence, or that gives advice or instruction on the procurement of any weapon. self-harm: type: boolean description: Content that promotes, encourages, or depicts acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders. self-harm/intent: type: boolean description: Content where the speaker expresses that they are engaging or intend to engage in acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders. self-harm/instructions: type: boolean description: Content that encourages performing acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders, or that gives instructions or advice on how to commit such acts. sexual: type: boolean description: Content meant to arouse sexual excitement, such as the description of sexual activity, or that promotes sexual services (excluding sex education and wellness). sexual/minors: type: boolean description: Sexual content that includes an individual who is under 18 years old. violence: type: boolean description: Content that depicts death, violence, or physical injury. violence/graphic: type: boolean description: Content that depicts death, violence, or physical injury in graphic detail. required: - hate - hate/threatening - harassment - harassment/threatening - illicit - illicit/violent - self-harm - self-harm/intent - self-harm/instructions - sexual - sexual/minors - violence - violence/graphic category_scores: type: object description: A list of the categories along with their scores as predicted by model. properties: hate: type: number description: The score for the category 'hate'. hate/threatening: type: number description: The score for the category 'hate/threatening'. harassment: type: number description: The score for the category 'harassment'. harassment/threatening: type: number description: The score for the category 'harassment/threatening'. illicit: type: number description: The score for the category 'illicit'. illicit/violent: type: number description: The score for the category 'illicit/violent'. self-harm: type: number description: The score for the category 'self-harm'. self-harm/intent: type: number description: The score for the category 'self-harm/intent'. self-harm/instructions: type: number description: The score for the category 'self-harm/instructions'. sexual: type: number description: The score for the category 'sexual'. sexual/minors: type: number description: The score for the category 'sexual/minors'. violence: type: number description: The score for the category 'violence'. violence/graphic: type: number description: The score for the category 'violence/graphic'. required: - hate - hate/threatening - harassment - harassment/threatening - illicit - illicit/violent - self-harm - self-harm/intent - self-harm/instructions - sexual - sexual/minors - violence - violence/graphic category_applied_input_types: type: object description: A list of the categories along with the input type(s) that the score applies to. properties: hate: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'hate'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true hate/threatening: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'hate/threatening'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true harassment: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'harassment'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true harassment/threatening: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'harassment/threatening'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true illicit: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'illicit'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true illicit/violent: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'illicit/violent'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true self-harm: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'self-harm'. items: type: string enum: - text - image self-harm/intent: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'self-harm/intent'. items: type: string enum: - text - image self-harm/instructions: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'self-harm/instructions'. items: type: string enum: - text - image sexual: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'sexual'. items: type: string enum: - text - image sexual/minors: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'sexual/minors'. items: type: string enum: - text x-stainless-const: true violence: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'violence'. items: type: string enum: - text - image violence/graphic: type: array description: The applied input type(s) for the category 'violence/graphic'. items: type: string enum: - text - image required: - hate - hate/threatening - harassment - harassment/threatening - illicit - illicit/violent - self-harm - self-harm/intent - self-harm/instructions - sexual - sexual/minors - violence - violence/graphic required: - flagged - categories - category_scores - category_applied_input_types required: - id - model - results x-oaiMeta: name: The moderation object example: | { "id": "modr-0d9740456c391e43c445bf0f010940c7", "model": "omni-moderation-latest", "results": [ { "flagged": true, "categories": { "harassment": true, "harassment/threatening": true, "sexual": false, "hate": false, "hate/threatening": false, "illicit": false, "illicit/violent": false, "self-harm/intent": false, "self-harm/instructions": false, "self-harm": false, "sexual/minors": false, "violence": true, "violence/graphic": true }, "category_scores": { "harassment": 0.8189693396524255, "harassment/threatening": 0.804985420696006, "sexual": 1.573112165348997e-6, "hate": 0.007562942636942845, "hate/threatening": 0.004208854591835476, "illicit": 0.030535955153511665, "illicit/violent": 0.008925306722380033, "self-harm/intent": 0.00023023930975076432, "self-harm/instructions": 0.0002293869201073356, "self-harm": 0.012598046106750154, "sexual/minors": 2.212566909570261e-8, "violence": 0.9999992735124786, "violence/graphic": 0.843064871157054 }, "category_applied_input_types": { "harassment": [ "text" ], "harassment/threatening": [ "text" ], "sexual": [ "text", "image" ], "hate": [ "text" ], "hate/threatening": [ "text" ], "illicit": [ "text" ], "illicit/violent": [ "text" ], "self-harm/intent": [ "text", "image" ], "self-harm/instructions": [ "text", "image" ], "self-harm": [ "text", "image" ], "sexual/minors": [ "text" ], "violence": [ "text", "image" ], "violence/graphic": [ "text", "image" ] } } ] } securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: http scheme: bearer ```