Perspective API

tankerkiller125

Perspective by tankerkiller125

Packagist Packagist Version

Check post for toxicity and potentially unwanted language!
Settings Page
Approval display

Installation

Use Bazaar or install manually with composer:

composer require tank/perspective

After enabling the extension you will need to paste in your perspective API code from your Google API console. You will also need to set a threshold for automatically marking content as toxic. I've found that 70 works pretty well for my forums, you may need to adjust this value depending on your forums preferred tone.

Updating

composer update tank/perspective

Important Privacy Information

This extension makes use of a Google API, the data sent only contains the contents of a post and does not contain
any personal information regarding any user. All API request are sent from your Flarum server (masking your user IPs)
and does not use any Google cookies on your guest/members browsers. An option to keep google from storing the
contents of post for research purposes has been included to further the privacy if you wish.

010101

tankerkiller125 ❤️ - But, I can’t install it. Composer says my forum doesn’t meet the minimum version requirements. But, I have beta 10.

luceos

I guess we will need to give this a try on discuss 😉

[deleted]

Wow. A profanity filter ! You rock @tankerkiller125

tankerkiller125

I've discovered a bug related to approving post after they've been marked as toxic by perspective. It does not affect normal approvals. I'm currently working on figuring out how to fix it and I'll release a patch as soon as I have it fixed.

datitisev

010101 Looks like the extension also requires any version of flarum/approvals (^0.1.0) and version ^0.1.0-beta.9 of flarum/flags.

tankerkiller125

010101 Can you post the console log?

010101

tankerkiller125 It doesn’t even attempt to install it. Composer immediately says:

No errors were logged. I don’t know if this is it but, some other extensions’ composer.json files don’t include the minimum stability beta line.

datitisev I have these with the correct versions activated.

if it’s just me that’s cool. Could just be something with my installation.

tankerkiller125

010101 if you try composer install tank/perspective 0.1.0 does that work?

datitisev

010101 See why you can't install it with composer why-not tank/perspectivee

EDIT: This might only work for packages that are already installed and cannot be updated due to requirements.

UntrustableRus

I hope to install this in a few hours. Hopefully the above problems are fixed so i can make sure it works.

UntrustableRus

Could you include some more instructions on how to do the google api part

tankerkiller125

UntrustableRus You'll want to go to https://console.developers.google.com/apis/ and then from there you'll need to go to the API library and search for Perspective. Once you've found it you'll need to enable the API and then under credentials you'll need to create an API key. Copy and past the API key into the settings modal and select the options you want and set your threshold.

tankerkiller125

datitisev I have a feeling it's the composer cache, I've discovered that composer won't always detect that a released version of a packages is available. So composer may be thinking that the package is still in a dev-master state because of the cache.

datitisev

tankerkiller125 Oh yeah, I've had that happen before as well.

010101

tankerkiller125 That’s what it was. Composer cache. Thanks!

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My only concern with this extension is how much data is being sent into Google for analysis before the text is sent back. Any information sent to an external service for analysis could well be in scope for GDPR if there is identifiable information that is attributable to an individual.

tankerkiller125

[deleted] Google has a no store flag that will prevent them from storing the data. I will had a toggle for that in the next release.

Edit: Feature has been release, also this extension will NEVER send identifiable information to google. It only sends the contents of a post, never a user email, user id or any other information that would identify an individual user.

tankerkiller125

Update 0.1.1

This update fixes some minor issues and addresses the concern about Google storing discussion data ([deleted])

Changelog

Fixed approval issue (only on content marked by perspective)
Added a Do Not Store option. This will inform Google not to store submitted post