Functionality Discussion: Getting list of actively blocked links outside of the browser

[ayham-1]

Is the project maintainer(s) willing to accept a feature that allows external user-run applications to receive what is actively being blocked by the extension?

I am willing to work on the feature myself.

[gwarser]

If you only want the links, then you can do this in your own extension by watching for blocked requests (https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Scope). Exporting this from uBO will require the logger to be enabled and working all the time which will probably be slow. API access into uBO internals was declined before gorhill/uBlock#3352.

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Even gathering statistics was declined before #261 (comment)

[gorhill]

your own extension by watching for blocked requests

Right, just registering the appropriate listeners in your standalone extension you can find out whether a network request was allowed to reach a remote server or not -- and this works regardless of which content blocker is installed:

The web request API guarantees that for each request, either onCompleted or onErrorOccurred is fired as the final event with one exception: If a request is redirected to a data:// URL, onBeforeRedirect is the last reported event.

[ayham-1]

API access into uBO internals was declined before gorhill/uBlock#3352.

Even gathering statistics was declined before #261 (comment)

Ok that is pretty understandable.

Watching for blocked requests would be acceptable for my use case.

Thank you for your replies, I guess this discussion is solved.