abp2blocklist

This is a script to convert Adblock Plus filter lists to WebKit block lists.

Note that WebKit content blockers are fairly limited. Hence, not all filters can be converted (in a compatible way), and some differences compared to Adblock Plus for other browsers are expected.

This script is used to convert the filter lists for Adblock Plus for iOS.

Requirements

The required packages can be installed via NPM:

npm install

Usage

Create a WebKit block list output.json from the Adblock Plus filter list input.txt:

node abp2blocklist.js < input.txt > output.json

Tests

Unit tests live in the tests/ directory. To run the unit tests ensure you have already installed the required packages (see above) and then type this command:

npm test

Adblock Plus core code

To parse the Adblock Plus filters, we reuse parts of the core Adblock Plus code, those files are inside the adblockpluscore directory.

If you need to refresh those files, run these commands (adjusting the paths as appropriate):

cp adblockpluscore/lib/common.js abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/lib/
cp adblockpluscore/lib/coreUtils.js abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/lib/
cp adblockpluscore/lib/domain.js abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/lib/
cp adblockpluscore/data/resources.json abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/data/
cp adblockpluscore/data/publicSuffixList.json abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/data/
grep -vi filterNotifier adblockpluscore/lib/filterClasses.js > abp2blocklist/adblockpluscore/lib/filterClasses.js