genhosts

A simple program to generate hosts file from specified blocklist URLs.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Features

• Downloads specified blocklist URLs in /etc/genhosts/config.toml
• Concatenates each one, ordered by priority
• Removes duplicate entries
• Hosts download directory, output location
• Dumps default config to /etc/genhosts/config.toml if specified
• Restores default /etc/hosts if specified
• Loads config from a custom file if specified

Prerequisites

• A C++ compiler with C++20 support
• Meson build system
• libcurl library

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/randalthor17/genhosts.git

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd genhosts

3. Generate meson build directory:

meson setup -Dbuildtype=release -Db_strip=true --prefix=/usr build

Note: You can change the prefix to ~/.local to do a local installation.

4. Build the project:

meson compile -C build

5. Install the project:

meson install -C build

Usage

genhosts [OPTION...]

  -c, --config arg              Configuration file location (default: 
                                /etc/genhosts/config.toml)
      --hosts-save-dir arg      Hosts file download directory (default: 
                                /etc/hosts.d)
  -o, --output arg              Hosts output path (default: /etc/hosts)
  -s, --dump-config [=arg(=/etc/genhosts/config.toml)]
                                Dump config to a specific path
      --restore [=arg(=/etc/hosts)]
                                Restore hosts file
  -h, --help                    Print help

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.