ad-block-js

parse subset of ad-block address/url blocking rules

supports: wildcards, ||domain, |beginning, end|, separator^ ( /:?=& )

ignores: @@exceptions, $options, ##elements

ref: https://help.eyeo.com/en/adblockplus/how-to-write-filters#introduction

Easy to use

Module usage

const abjs = require( 'ad-block-js' )
const client = abjs.create()

// curl -O https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt
const easylist = require( 'fs' ).readFileSync( 'easylist.txt', 'utf8' )

easylist.split( '\r?\n' ).forEach( function ( rule ) {
  client.add( rule )
} )

const url = 'example.com/foo/bar.gif'
console.log( client.matches( url ) ) // false

const adurl = 'example.com/foo/bar.gif&adflag='
console.log( client.matches( adurl ) ) // true

About

Parse a subset of url blocking rules in the ad-block rule format.

Why

Other alternatives are heavy and require gyp-rebuilds etc.

For who?

Those who want a simple but better than average ad-blocking.

How

Using plain JavaScript we parse some (not all) of the basic rule formats and use primarily String.indexOf() to seek for matches ( indexOf is an order of magnitude faster than traditional for-loops, at least on V8 )

ref: https://help.eyeo.com/en/adblockplus/how-to-write-filters#introduction

Alternatives

ad-block

Test

test (and benchmark) indexOf version

npm test

test (and benchmark) for-loop version

node test/test-for-loop.js