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Whitelist and Blacklist editing

What to Whitelist or Blacklist

This extension for Google Chrome can help you in finding out which domains you need to whitelist.

How to Whitelist or Blacklist

There are scripts to aid users in adding or removing domains to the whitelist or blacklist from the CLI

Each script accepts the following parameters:

Parameter Description
[domain] Fully qualified domain name you wish to add or remove. You can pass any number of domains.
-d Removal mode. Domains will be removed from the list, rather than added
-nr Update blacklist without refreshing pihole-FTL
-f Force delete cached blocklist content
-q Quiet mode. Console output is minimal. Useful for calling from another script (see gravity.sh)

Domains passed are parsed by the script to ensure they are valid domains. If a domain is invalid it will be ignored.

By default, Whitelisted/Blacklisted domains are associated with the Default Group only. If the domain should be associated with other groups, these will need to be selected in Group Management > Domains within the Pi-Hole web frontend.

Example pihole -w usages

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the whitelist and reload pihole-FTL:

    pihole -w domain1 [domain2...]

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the whitelist, but do not reload pihole-FTL:

    pihole -w -nr domain1 [domain2...]

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the whitelist and force pihole-FTL to reload:

    pihole -w -f domain1 [domain2...]

To remove domains from the whitelist add -d as an additional argument, e.g:

pihole -w -d domain1 [domain2...]

Example pihole -b usages

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the blacklist and reload pihole-FTL:

    pihole -b domain1 [domain2...]

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the blacklist, but do not reload pihole-FTL:

    pihole -b -nr domain1 [domain2...]

  • Attempt to add one or more domains to the blacklist and force pihole-FTL to reload:

    pihole -b -f domain1 [domain2...]

To remove domains from the blacklist add -d as an additional argument, e.g:

pihole -b -d domain1 [domain2...]