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PurgoMalum vs US Street Address

PurgoMalum

PurgoMalum is a free, keyless GET-only web service that strips or flags profanity and obscenity in a submitted text string, recognizing common character substitutions ("@" for "a", "$" for "s") and an internal profanity list that can be extended per-request with an `add` parameter of extra blocked words. Separate request-type paths return the cleaned text as plain text, XML, or JSON, or return just a "true"/"false" verdict via its `containsprofanity` endpoint, so callers pick the shape they need without content negotiation headers. It's a single-purpose text-moderation utility rather than a full profile of a company's platform — there is no dashboard, key, or paid tier.

US Street Address

Smarty's US Street API is a CASS-certified single/batch address validator: it corrects, standardizes, and appends ZIP+4, county, carrier route, and delivery-point-validation (DPV) data to a US postal address, flagging vacant, undeliverable, or CMRA (commercial mail receiving agency) addresses along the way. Requests can be sent as GET query parameters or as a JSON/XML batch of up to 100 addresses per POST, and responses are returned in the same format. It shares an account and API key with Smarty's other address-data products, including US Autocomplete and US Extract.

PurgoMalumUS Street Address
AuthenticationNoneAPI Key
Pricingfreefreemium
FormatsJSON, XML, Plain TextJSON, XML
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

PurgoMalum needs no API key, while US Street Address requires API Key — pick PurgoMalum to start without signup.

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