Text Operations - Analyze Text

Service:

Azure AI Services

API Version:

2024-09-01

Analyze Text
A synchronous API for the analysis of potentially harmful text content. Currently, it supports four categories: Hate, SelfHarm, Sexual, and Violence.

POST {endpoint}/contentsafety/text:analyze?api-version=2024-09-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
endpoint	path	True	string	Supported Cognitive Services endpoints (protocol and hostname, for example: https://.cognitiveservices.azure.com).
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
text	True	string	The text to be analyzed. We support a maximum of 10k Unicode characters (Unicode code points) in the text of one request.
blocklistNames		string[]	The names of blocklists.
categories		TextCategory[]	The categories will be analyzed. If they are not assigned, a default set of analysis results for the categories will be returned.
haltOnBlocklistHit		boolean	When set to true, further analyses of harmful content will not be performed in cases where blocklists are hit. When set to false, all analyses of harmful content will be performed, whether or not blocklists are hit.
outputType		AnalyzeTextOutputType	This refers to the type of text analysis output. If no value is assigned, the default value will be "FourSeverityLevels".

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	AnalyzeTextResult	The request has succeeded.
Other Status Codes	Azure.Core.Foundations.ErrorResponse	An unexpected error response. Headers x-ms-error-code: string

Security

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

Type: apiKey
In: header

OAuth2Auth

Type: oauth2
Flow: application
Token URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token

Scopes

Name	Description
https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default

Examples

Analyze Text

Sample request

HTTP

POST {endpoint}/contentsafety/text:analyze?api-version=2024-09-01

{
  "text": "This is text example"
}

Sample response

Status code:

200

{
  "blocklistsMatch": [],
  "categoriesAnalysis": [
    {
      "category": "Hate",
      "severity": 0
    },
    {
      "category": "SelfHarm",
      "severity": 0
    },
    {
      "category": "Sexual",
      "severity": 0
    },
    {
      "category": "Violence",
      "severity": 0
    }
  ]
}

Definitions

Name	Description
AnalyzeTextOptions	The text analysis request.
AnalyzeTextOutputType	This refers to the type of text analysis output. If no value is assigned, the default value will be "FourSeverityLevels".
AnalyzeTextResult	The text analysis response.
Azure.Core.Foundations.Error	The error object.
Azure.Core.Foundations.ErrorResponse	A response containing error details.
Azure.Core.Foundations.InnerError	An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.
TextBlocklistMatch	The result of blocklist match.
TextCategoriesAnalysis	Text analysis result.
TextCategory	The harm category supported in Text content analysis.

AnalyzeTextOptions

Object

The text analysis request.

Name	Type	Default value	Description
blocklistNames	string[]		The names of blocklists.
categories	TextCategory[]		The categories will be analyzed. If they are not assigned, a default set of analysis results for the categories will be returned.
haltOnBlocklistHit	boolean		When set to true, further analyses of harmful content will not be performed in cases where blocklists are hit. When set to false, all analyses of harmful content will be performed, whether or not blocklists are hit.
outputType	AnalyzeTextOutputType	FourSeverityLevels	This refers to the type of text analysis output. If no value is assigned, the default value will be "FourSeverityLevels".
text	string		The text to be analyzed. We support a maximum of 10k Unicode characters (Unicode code points) in the text of one request.

AnalyzeTextOutputType

Enumeration

This refers to the type of text analysis output. If no value is assigned, the default value will be "FourSeverityLevels".

Value	Description
EightSeverityLevels	Output severities in eight levels, the value could be 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
FourSeverityLevels	Output severities in four levels, the value could be 0,2,4,6.

AnalyzeTextResult

Object

The text analysis response.

Name	Type	Description
blocklistsMatch	TextBlocklistMatch[]	The blocklist match details.
categoriesAnalysis	TextCategoriesAnalysis[]	Analysis result for categories.

Azure.Core.Foundations.Error

Object

The error object.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
details	Azure.Core.Foundations.Error[]	An array of details about specific errors that led to this reported error.
innererror	Azure.Core.Foundations.InnerError	An object containing more specific information than the current object about the error.
message	string	A human-readable representation of the error.
target	string	The target of the error.

Azure.Core.Foundations.ErrorResponse

Object

A response containing error details.

Name	Type	Description
error	Azure.Core.Foundations.Error	The error object.

Azure.Core.Foundations.InnerError

Object

An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.

Name	Type	Description
code	string	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
innererror	Azure.Core.Foundations.InnerError	Inner error.

TextBlocklistMatch

Object

The result of blocklist match.

Name	Type	Description
blocklistItemId	string	The ID of the matched item.
blocklistItemText	string	The content of the matched item.
blocklistName	string	The name of the matched blocklist.

TextCategoriesAnalysis

Object

Text analysis result.

Name	Type	Description
category	TextCategory	The text analysis category.
severity	integer	The value increases with the severity of the input content. The value of this field is determined by the output type specified in the request. The output type could be ‘FourSeverityLevels’ or ‘EightSeverity Levels’, and the output value can be 0, 2, 4, 6 or 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7.

TextCategory

Enumeration

The harm category supported in Text content analysis.

Value	Description
Hate	The harm category for Text - Hate.
SelfHarm	The harm category for Text - SelfHarm.
Sexual	The harm category for Text - Sexual.
Violence	The harm category for Text - Violence.