hosts-timer's Introduction

hosts-timer

Block websites on your system with /etc/hosts, and re-enable them on demand for a specified amount of time.

Installation

Requires Go to be installed (tested with Go 1.15.x).

git clone https://github.com/cdzombak/hosts-timer.git
cd hosts-timer
make install

Usage

Setup for domain(s)

sudo hosts-timer -install facebook.com twitter.com

(-disable is an alias for -install, which disables the given sites.)

Use a site for a specified duration of time

sudo hosts-timer -time 5m twitter.com

Durations must be acceptable by time.ParseDuration.

Remove hosts-timer block for domain(s)

sudo hosts-timer -uninstall twitter.com facebook.com

(-enable is an alias for -uninstall, which enables the given sites.)

Setup Hints

`.zshrc` helpers

function use-facebook() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Usage: use-facebook DURATION"
        echo "   eg. use-facebook 5m"
        return 1
    fi
    sudo hosts-timer -time "$1" facebook.com
}

function use-twitter() {
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        echo "Usage: use-twitter DURATION"
        echo "   eg. use-twitter 5m"
        return 1
    fi
    sudo hosts-timer -time "$1" twitter.com
}

Alfred helpers

Install the included Alfred helpers, and then you can use Alfred to enable Twitter or Facebook for a given amount of time (default 5 minutes).

Create `/etc/sudoers.d/hosts-timer`

cdzombak ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/hosts-timer

And then:

sudo chown root:wheel /etc/sudoers.d/hosts-timer
sudo chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/hosts-timer

Author

Chris Dzombak

hosts-timer's People

Contributors

Stargazers

Watchers

hosts-timer's Issues

Cannot support both IPv4 and IPv6

When using https://github.com/txn2/txeh to add ipv4 and then ipv6 entries to hosts, it will always remove all previous entries regardless of IP version. So, trying to add ipv6 after ipv4 means the ipv4 entries get removed, and vice versa.

I can't really handle this, without patching the underlying lib. But ipv6 is currently disabled at home for Other Reasons, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯