Pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

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A black hole for Internet advertisements

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README.md

The multi-platform, network-wide ad blocker

Block ads for all your devices without the need to install client-side software. The Pi-hole blocks ads the DNS-level, so all your devices are protected.

Web Browsers
Cell Phones
Smart TV's
Internet-connected home automation
Anything that communicates with the Internet

Your Support Still Matters

Digital Ocean helps with our infrastructure, but our developers are all volunteers, so your donations are what help keep us motivated to keep working on the project. Send a one-time donation using our links below to help us with a small portion of our monthly costs.

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Automated Install

Install a supported operating system
Run the command below (it downloads this script in case you want to read over it first!)

`curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash`

Alternative Semi-Automated install

wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
bash basic-install.sh

If you wish to read over the script before running it, then after the wget command, run nano basic-install.sh to open the file in a text viewer.

Once installed, configure your router to have DHCP clients use the Pi as their DNS server and then any device that connects to your network will have ads blocked without any further configuration. Alternatively, you can manually set each device to use the Raspberry Pi as its DNS server.

Installing the Pi-hole (Click to Watch!)

How does it work?

Watch the 60-second video below to get a quick overview

Gravity

The gravity.sh does most of the magic. The script pulls in ad domains from many sources and compiles them into a single list of over 1.6 million entries (if you decide to use the mahakala list). This script is controlled by the pihole command. Please run pihole -h to see what commands can be run via pihole.

Get Help Or Connect With Us On The Web

Technical Details

The Pi-hole is an advertising-aware DNS/Web server. If an ad domain is queried, a small Web page or GIF is delivered in place of the advertisement. You can also replace ads with any image you want since it is just a simple Webpage taking place of the ads.

Other Operating Systems

The automated install is only for a clean install of a Debian family or Fedora based system, such as the Raspberry Pi. However, this script will work for most UNIX-like systems, some with some slight modifications that we can help you work through. If you can install dnsmasq and a Webserver, it should work OK. If there are other platforms you'd like supported, let us know.

Web Interface

The Web interface will be installed automatically so you can view stats and change settings. You can find it at:

http://192.168.1.x/admin/index.php or http://pi.hole/admin

Whitelist and blacklist

Domains can be whitelisted and blacklisted using either the web interface or the command line. See the wiki page for more details

API

A basic read-only API can be accessed at /admin/api.php. It returns the following JSON:

{
    "domains_being_blocked": "136708",
    "dns_queries_today": "18108",
    "ads_blocked_today": "14648",
    "ads_percentage_today": "80.89"
}

The same output can be achieved on the CLI by running chronometer.sh -j

Real-time Statistics

You can view real-time stats via ssh or on an 2.8" LCD screen. This is accomplished via chronometer.sh.