privoxy-adblock-jscript

A JScript for Windows (Windows Script Host) that converts Adblock lists to the Privoxy format.

Based on code by Andrwe Lord Weber found here, as modified for OS X by skroll.

This script is modified to work with the Windows Script Host and requires Admin privileges if you've kept the defaults (an installed copy of Privoxy, with configuration files in its installation directory); it is recommended to make a Scheduled Task running this script periodically (about once per week, the same frequency at which Adblock Plus itself updates lists by default).

Note: This script requires sed to be installed on the system; get it as part of GnuWin32 and be sure to add its bin directory (by default C:\Gnu32\bin) to your PATH environment variable. In a future update, the script may be rewritten to no longer rely on sed, just as it no longer relies on wget.

Usage

By default, this script fetches the easylist script and installs it into the Privoxy installation directory, which is also the default directory for configuration, actions, and filter files; first it will try %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Privoxy (64-bit Windows) and then %PROGRAMFILES%\Privoxy (32-bit Windows). If that is not appropriate for your system, parameters can be passed to control the behavior of the script.

> privoxy-adblock.js [-d] [-p <privoxy config dir>] [-u <url1>] [-u <url2>]...

The script supports the passing of multiple URLs, the output of the converted Adblock filter lists will be [basename].script.action and [basename].script.filter.

Once the files have been created, they must be added to the privoxy configuration. For example:

actionsfile easylist.script.action
filterfile easylist.script.filter

Once the file is added, rerunning the script with the same parameters will automatically update the Privoxy filters.

Environment Variables