Help with chat system filtering

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This article on the developer hub explains this pretty well.

There is a couple of things you should also know when filtering text.

  • It will not work in studio.
  • Filtering may occasionally error and you should wrap the function in pcall.
  • Text filtering only works on the server.

Try this function. This will return a string that is appropriate for all users.

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")

local function filterText(fromUserId, text)
	local textFilterResult = ""
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		textFilterResult = TextService:FilterStringAsync(text, fromUserId)
	end)
	if not success then
		warn(errorMessage)
		return "Failed to filter string..."
	else
		return textFilterResult:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()
	end
end

You could call the function like this:

filterText(game.Players.Enomphia.UserId, "discord")

This would then return “#######” due to discord being censored.