Warning: it might block YouTube completely.

Ads are served through the same domains as normal video clips. Until I find a better solution, please be mindful of this issue and consider this as experimental.

pihole-youtube-block

Scans logs generated by pihole and extracts domains used to serve ads on YouTube

• scans log files, including archived logs
• can process multiple files in parallel
• compiles a unique list with the extracted domains
• offers the option to add (blacklist) the extracted domains directly to pihole
• low memory footprint and extremely fast
• no dependencies
• you don't need to install anything (check bin folder)

Getting started

$ git clone https://github.com/foae/pihole-youtube-block.git
$ cd pihole-youtube-block

How to run if you have go installed

$ go run main.go

How to run it without having go installed

For ARM (Raspberry Pi and alternatives)

$ cd bin
$ ./ytblock-rpi

For all others

$ cd bin
$ ./ytblock

All gathered domains will be written to compiled_domains.txt
You can easily tweak the configuration; it has sensible defaults.

File config.json

• "PIHOLE_LOGS_DIR": "/var/log/", – path to your pihole logs
• "COMPILED_FILE_NAME": "./compiled_domains.txt", – name of the file used to collect all domains from logs
• "LOG_FILE_NAME_PREFIX": "pihole.log" – if your pihole log files bear a different name, change this with the common prefix of your log files that you want scanned
• "POP_CONFIRMATION_DIALOGUE": true – change to false to skip the confirmation dialogue and send the found domains directly to pihole without asking. Useful for scripting.

Example output

blana@raspberrypi:~/pihole-youtube-block/bin $ ./ytblock-rpi 
>>> Waiting for all jobs to finish...
2018/11/30 19:19:14 Finished processing file (/var/log/pihole.log) in (1.964928163s).
2018/11/30 19:19:16 Finished processing file (/var/log/pihole.log.1) in (3.518280066s).
2018/11/30 19:19:18 Finished processing file (/var/log/pihole.log.2.gz) in (5.431282712s).
>>> Done: (125) unique extracted domains written to (./compiled_domains.txt) in (5.48431123s)
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Would you like to stick those (125) collected domains into *your* pihole? (y/n)
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n
2018/11/30 19:19:20 No is a no. Bye.

License

MIT License