Parser for Adblock Plus rules
Project description
adblockparser
adblockparser is a package for working with Adblock Plus filter rules. It can parse Adblock Plus filters and match URLs against them.
Installation
pip install adblockparser
For faster filter matching (2x-10x for a list of default EasyList filters) install pyre2 library. Version from github is required:
pip install git+https://github.com/axiak/pyre2.git#egg=re2
Usage
To learn about Adblock Plus filter syntax check these links:
Get filter rules somewhere: write them manually, read lines from a file downloaded from EasyList, etc.:
>>> raw_rules = [ ... "||ads.example.com^", ... "@@||ads.example.com/notbanner^$~script", ... ]
Create AdblockRules instance from rule strings:
>>> from adblockparser import AdblockRules >>> rules = AdblockRules(raw_rules)
Use this instance to check if an URL should be blocked or not:
>>> rules.should_block("http://ads.example.com") TrueRules with options are ignored unless you pass a dict with options values:
>>> rules.should_block("http://ads.example.com/notbanner") True >>> rules.should_block("http://ads.example.com/notbanner", {'script': False}) False >>> rules.should_block("http://ads.example.com/notbanner", {'script': True}) True
Consult with Adblock Plus docs for options description. These options allow to write filters that depend on some external information not available in URL itself.
Performance
Regex engines
AdblockRules class creates a huge regex to match filters that don’t use options. pyre2 library works better than stdlib’s re with such regexes. If you have pyre2 installed then AdblockRules should work faster.
Sometimes it fails and prints something like re2/dfa.cc:459: DFA out of memory: prog size 270515 mem 1713850 to stderr. Give re2 library more memory to fix that:
>>> rules = AdblockRules(raw_rules, use_re2=True, max_mem=512*1024*1024) # doctest: +SKIP
Make sure you are not using re2 0.2.20 installed from PyPI, it doesn’t work. Install it from the github repo.
Parsing rules with options
Rules that have options are currently matched in a loop, one-by-one. Also, they are checked for compatibility with options passed by user: for example, if user didn’t pass ‘script’ option (with a True or False value), all rules involving script are discarded.
This is slow if you have thousands of such rules. To make it work faster, explicitly list all options you want to support in AdblockRules constructor, disable skipping of unsupported rules, and always pass a dict with all options to should_block method:
>>> rules = AdblockRules(
... raw_rules,
... supported_options=['script', 'domain'],
... skip_unsupported_rules=False
... )
>>> params = {'script': False, 'domain': 'www.mystartpage.com'}
>>> rules.should_block("http://ads.example.com/notbanner", params)
False
This way rules with unsupported options will be filtered once, when AdblockRules instance is created.
Limitations
There are some known limitations of the current implementation:
element hiding rules are ignored;
matching URLs against a large number of filters can be slow-ish, especially if pyre2 is not installed and many filter options are enabled;
match-case filter option is not properly supported (it is ignored);
document filter option is not properly supported;
rules are not validated before parsing, so invalid rules may raise inconsistent exceptions or silently work incorrectly;
regular expressions in rules are not supported.
It is possible to remove all these limitations. Pull requests are welcome if you want to make it happen sooner!
Contributing
source code: https://github.com/scrapinghub/adblockparser
issue tracker: https://github.com/scrapinghub/adblockparser/issues
In order to run tests, install tox and type
tox
from the source checkout.
The license is MIT.
Changes
0.1.1 (2012-03-11)
By default AdblockRules autodetects re2 library and uses it if a compatible version is detected.
0.1 (2012-03-03)
Initial release.
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