Website-Blocker 🚫 ⛔

This is a repository for debian linux website blocker using Python.

Files

• website_blocker.py

This is the python script file for the website blocker.

• website-blocker.service

This is the unit file for running the python script as a system service and loading it at startup.

Installation Instructions

• Download the repository by executing following commands

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/ornkkk/Website-Blocker.git
cd Website-Blocker

• Open the website_blocker.py file and edit the following lines.

start_time = "08:15" # HH:MM in 24-hour format
end_time = "18:00" # HH:MM in 24-hour format
  
# websites that you want to block
website_list = ["www.facebook.com",
                "www.youtube.com"]

• Change the start_time, end_timeaccordingly. Add the website you want to be blocked to website_list.

• Open website-blocker.service and add the absolute path to the python script file to ExecStart parameter. By default the absolute path is /home/<user>/Downloads/Website-Blocker/website_blocker.py

  ExecStart=/home/<user>/Downloads/Website-Blocker/website_blocker.py
  

  Note: Replace <user> with your username.

• Give execute permissions to the script file

sudo chmod +x website_blocker.py

• Add the unit file to the system services to automatically load at every startup

sudo cp website-blocker.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
reboot

• After reboot you can see that the script file will be running automatically. To verify visit any of the blocked websites. They should be unreachable.
• To manually start/stop the service use following commands:

sudo systemctl start website-blocker
sudo systemctl stop website-blocker