The daily changes contains diff files from the current blacklist to the previous blacklist. A script to use is is shown later. When using the blacklist with DansGuardian the blacklist files are put in a random order as DansGuardian sorts them when it reads them into memory. The Quick Sort algorithm is very slow at sorting a sorted list hence why we do this. The diffs are against a sorted blacklist however.

You are reminded that this is a commercial service that works upon an honour system. If you use the service then you must buy a subscription. We do not password the blacklist download to keep scripts simple for all users. Please do not abuse the service.

Automated Download
You can obtain a script to do the download and update DansGuardian automatically from here: http://urlblacklist.com/UpdateBL. The original one can be downloaded here: http://urlblacklist.com/downloads/OriginalUpdateBL. To download the diff files instead saving you bandwidth, try this script. The diff script does not re-randomise the blacklist after applying the diff so might cause slow startups. Please note we are unable to provide support on these scripts. They are provided in the hope that some people might find them useful. They are not part of the commercial service provided. If you require support on using the script you may find help on either the DansGuardian mailing list or the squidGuard mailing list.

Downloading is monitored by an SQL database.

In order to test the automated scripts please use these small tests links instead.
It will save bandwidth and save you time waiting for the download to complete.
http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=download&file=smalltestlist
The modified information can be obtained from:
http://urlblacklist.com/cgi-bin/commercialdownload.pl?type=information&file=smalltestlist

The format of the small test list is identical to that of the large one, but several sections have had most of their entries removed. It does not get updated like the regular blacklist.

Entries
At the last build the blacklist now contains 3636417 entries.

Categories
This is a live list taken from the category description file in the last build of the blacklist.

Category	Description
abortion	Abortion information excluding when related to religion
ads	Advert servers and banned URLs
adult	Sites containing adult material such as swearing but not porn
aggressive	Similar to violence but more promoting than depicting
antispyware	Sites that remove spyware
artnudes	Art sites containing artistic nudity
astrology	Astrology websites
banking	Banking websites
beerliquorinfo	Sites with information only on beer or liquors
beerliquorsale	Sites with beer or liquors for sale
blog	Journal/Diary websites
cellphones	stuff for mobile/cell phones
chat	Sites with chat rooms etc
childcare	Sites to do with childcare
cleaning	Sites to do with cleaning
clothing	Sites about and selling clothing
contraception	Information about contraception
culnary	Sites about cooking et al
dating	Sites about dating
desktopsillies	Sites containing screen savers, backgrounds, cursers, pointers. desktop themes and similar timewasting and potentially dangerous content
dialers	Sites with dialers such as those for pornography or trojans
drugs	Drug related sites
ecommerce	Sites that provide online shopping
entertainment	Sites that promote movies, books, magazine, humor
filehosting	Sites to do with filehosting
frencheducation	Sites to do with french education
gambling	Gambling sites including stocks and shares
games	Game related sites
gardening	Gardening sites
government	Military and schools etc
guns	Sites with guns
hacking	Hacking/cracking information
homerepair	Sites about home repair
hygiene	Sites about hygiene and other personal grooming related stuff
instantmessaging	Sites that contain messenger client download and web-based messaging sites
jewelry	Sites about and selling jewelry
jobsearch	Sites for finding jobs
kidstimewasting	Sites kids often waste time on
mail	Webmail and email sites
marketingware	Sites about marketing products
medical	Medical websites
mixed_adult	Mixed adult content sites
naturism	Sites that contain nude pictures and/or promote a nude lifestyle
news	News sites
onlineauctions	Online auctions
onlinegames	Online gaming sites
onlinepayment	Online payment sites
personalfinance	Personal finance sites
pets	Pet sites
phishing	Sites attempting to trick people into giving out private information.
porn	Pornography
proxy	Sites with proxies to bypass filters
radio	non-news related radio and television
religion	Sites promoting religion
ringtones	Sites containing ring tones, games, pictures and other
searchengines	Search engines such as google
sect	Sites about eligious groups
sexuality	Sites dedicated to sexuality, possibly including adult material
shopping	Shopping sites
socialnetworking	Social networking websites
sportnews	Sport news sites
sports	All sport sites
spyware	Sites who run or have spyware software to download
updatesites	Sites where software updates are downloaded from including virus sigs
vacation	Sites about going on holiday
violence	Sites containing violence
virusinfected	Sites who host virus infected files
warez	Sites with illegal pirate software
weather	Weather news sites and weather related
weapons	Sites detailing or selling weapons
webmail	Just webmail sites
whitelist	Contains site specifically 100% suitable for kids