AI Moderation and Security Checks for Links with User Waiting Feedback

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• Implement a comprehensive system to ensure all public links uploaded are safe, legal, and secure. The system will:
• Run AI-powered moderation to detect illegal, explicit, or spammy content.
• Perform security checks to validate URL format, protocol, and domain reputation.
• Provide user feedback by showing a waiting indicator during the verification process.
• Allow private links to bypass moderation with manual category assignment.
• Sanitize metadata to prevent XSS or injection attacks.

✅ Goals

• Extract metadata (title, description, URL) from submitted links.
• Enforce URL validation to accept only well-formed HTTPS links.
• Integrate domain reputation checks using APIs like Google Safe Browsing or VirusTotal.
• Use AI moderation API (e.g., OpenAI Moderation) to analyze link content safety.
• Block links flagged as unsafe (illegal, explicit, spam, phishing, etc.).
• Sanitize metadata to prevent injection and XSS attacks on frontend and backend.
• Provide clear error messages if a link is rejected.( real time display )
• Delay acceptance of public links until all moderation and security checks complete.
• Show a link on check message and continue to dashboard
• Allow private links to bypass moderation and be manually categorized.