Trouble with filtering text -- Doesn't even filter

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#1

So I am currently trying to filter text from a surface gui.

filteredText = TextService:FilterStringAsync(script.Parent.Screen.Info.Text, game.Players.N43FGXL.UserId)

When I print ‘filteredText’ it is Instance. When I try setting my text to ‘filteredText’ it doesn’t work (obviously because its class is an instance).

Why is this? How do I get the filtered text?

In advance, thanks.

When I use :GetChatForUserAsync() it just doesn’t even get me filtered text, just my initial text.

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#2

I think you want to be using the :FilterStringForBroadcast() method instead:

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#3

Does the code need to be in a Local Script?

It says it’s also deprecated.

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#4

No. Filtering from a local script is deprecated, and you cannot verify that a client (aka exploiter) will filter their text.

Also filtering in studio does not work.

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#5

Through FilterStringAsync, an instance (text filter result object) is returned.

To get the filtered text do this

 
 local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
 local object = TextService:FilterStringAsync(message, fromPlayerId)
 local filteredText = object:GetNonChatStringForBroadcastAsync()

Remember that these functions make web calls internally so it is ideal for them to be wrapped in protected calls (pcalls).

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and as @sjr04 mentioned, filtering in Studio does not work.

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