LouwHopley / faceblock

Regain focus by adding/removing Facebook urls to local hosts file to block access through the CLI.

Faceblock - command-line tool to block Facebook

Regain focus by blocking Facebook and Youtube access from your local machine. This tool adds or removes Facebook & Youtube urls to your local hosts file to block access.

Installation & usage

npm i faceblock -g

Blocking access to Facebook & Youtube:

sudo faceblock on

Unblock access to Facebook & Youtube:

sudo faceblock off

Note that Sudo is required to write to your /etc/hosts file.

How it works

Faceblock rewrites all hostname lookups for a list of Facebook urls back to your own computer. The following list is added to your /etc/hosts file when turning it on:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 youtube.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
127.0.0.1 play.google.com

Contribute

Feel free to submit PRs to this repo. Ideas for future improvements:

• Add Twitter and other social media support
• Non-OSX support?

License

MIT © @louwhopley