/privoxy-adblock

A bash script for OS X that converts adblock lists to privoxy's format

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privoxy-adblock

A bash script for OS X that converts adblock lists to privoxy's format.

Based on code by Andrwe Lord Weber found here. The original script did not work well in OS X due to the fact that it depended on pidof and other GNU/Linux specific behavior.

This script is modified to work in an OS X environment and does not require root privileges.

Note: This script requires wget to be installed on the system.

Usage

By default, this script fetches the easylist script and installs it into /usr/local/etc/privoxy. If that is not appropriate for your system, parameters can be passed to control the behavior of the script.

$ privoxy-adblock.sh [-d] [-p <privoxy config dir>] [-u <url1>] [-u <url2>]...
Switch/Parameter Description
-d Turn on debugging
-p <privoxy path> Path to privoxy configuration directory
-u <url> Downloads/converts adblock filter list

The script supports the passing of multiple URLs, the output of the converted adblock filter lists will be [basename].script.action and [basename].script.filter.

Once the files have been created, they must be added to the privoxy configuration. For example:

actionsfile easylist.script.action
filterfile easylist.script.filter

Once the file is added, rerunning the script with the same parameters will automatically update the privoxy filters.

Environment Variables

Environment Variable Description Default
SEDCMD The command used to invoke sed sed