Project Arachnid Shield
Free API matching media against a verified list of known abuse imagery.
About Project Arachnid Shield
Project Arachnid is made by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection Inc., which owns and operates its website. Shield by Project Arachnid is built for electronic service providers (ESPs) to help detect known CSAM and harmful-abusive images of children. The page states that there is no cost to using the tool.
Launched in 2017, Project Arachnid unifies automated CSAM detection methods with a team of dedicated analysts around the world. The global analyst network comprises 19 hotlines and child protection organizations in 18 countries.
Drafted from projectarachnid.ca · not yet confirmed by Canadian Centre for Child Protection
How it works
Project Arachnid is the Canadian Centre for Child Protection's crawler that finds and issues removal notices for known CSAM across the open web. Shield is the API they offer platforms: you send an image or video (or a hash) and it's matched against Arachnid's list of verified abuse material, including material that isn't illegal everywhere but is harmful to the child pictured. It also flags "harmful abusive" content that falls outside legal definitions.
It's free, and the list is large because it's built from crawling rather than only from reports. It's a strong complement to PhotoDNA and NCMEC lists.
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