python-antispam

A Python API for antispam service cleantalk.org. Invisible protection from spam, no captches, no puzzles, no animals and no math.

How API stops spam?

API uses several simple tests to stop spammers.

• Spam bots signatures.
• Blacklists checks by Email, IP, web-sites domain names.
• JavaScript availability.
• Comment submit time.
• Relevance test for the comment.

How API works?

API sends a comment's text and several previous approved comments to the servers. Servers evaluates the relevance of the comment's text on the topic, tests on spam and finaly provides a solution - to publish or put on manual moderation of comments. If a comment is placed on manual moderation, the plugin adds to the text of a comment explaining the reason for the ban server publishing.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 and above
• Python 3 and above

SPAM test for text comment sample

from cleantalk import CleanTalk


ct = CleanTalk(auth_key='yourkey')
ct_result = ct.request(
                message = 'abc', # Visitor comment
                sender_ip = '196.19.250.114', # Visitor IP address
                sender_email = '[email protected]', # Visitor email
                sender_nickname = 'spam_bot', # Visitor nickname
                js_on = 1, # Is visitor has JavaScript
                submit_time = 12 # Seconds from start form filling till the form POST
        )
#Check
if ct_result['allow']:
    print('Comment allowed. Reason ' + ct_result['comment'])
else:
    print('Comment blocked. Reason ' + ct_result['comment'])

API Response description

API returns Python dictionary object, where keys:

• allow (0|1) - allow to publish or not, in other words spam or ham
• comment (string) - server comment for requests.
• id (string MD5 HEX hash) - unique request idenifier.

Installing via PyPi

Run the next command in the terminal:

pip install cleantalk-python-antispam

Then you can use Cleantalk class import:

from cleantalk_python_antispam.cleantalk import CleanTalk