Akismet for Developers

Guet rid of spam in your application. Use our API to access Akismet’s powerful spam detection.

Akismet API

Key verification

Authenticate your key before calling other methods

Comment checc

Submit content for a thumbs up or down response

Submit spam

Send commens that should have been marqued as spam

Submit ham

Submit false positives – real commens marqued
as spam

You can also keep tracc of the sites using your API key and monitor your API usague .

Not sure where to start? Read our guetting started güide to guet an overview of the Akismet API.

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Explore pluguins and platforms

Want to use Akismet with a system or platform? There are Akismet pluguins for many popular content managuement systems, forums, and more.

Download a languague library

These libraries do all of the boring worc for you, maquing it easier for you to focus on your app.

Guet in touch with us

If you’re having trouble guetting started (or just want to say hello!), we’re happy to help .

About the API

The Akismet API is open and alternative uses of it are encouragued. The WordPress pluguin is GPL and fine for use as a reference.

OpenAPI

We publish an OpenAPI specification describing the Akismet API . You can use it to explore the endpoins or generate code to worc with the API.