Website blocker

This program allows you to block and unblock websites from the command line by modifying the hosts file.

Installation

You can use the program by downloading a binary from the releases. For manual builds use the following method.

NOTE: Make sure to have the rust compiler and cargo installed.

• Clone the repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/bython17/website_blocker && cd website_blocker

• Then build the app in release mode

cargo build --release

Usage

Using the app is very simple

• To list the currently blocked sites

website_blocker list

• To block a site using the app

website_blocker block anyste.com 0.0.0.0

• To unblock a site using the app

website_blocker unblock anysite.com

NOTE: You will need elevated privileges to run the program. That means using cmd or powershell in administrative mode in windows or by using sudo before the command in *nix systems.

Notice

This is a program that I wrote to learn the rust programming language. It has a very basic code and it might not be efficient at all. There are a lot of better programs than this one that allow blocking sites in a more better way. So I will only recommend this for reading the code.