Redirect any domain to localhost for convenience or productivity!

Improve your productivity by easily disabling access to domains you frequent. Set it up once, then just use hose and hose --off!

You can also use hose to redirect domains to localhost, for development purposes. See advanced usage

Install

Use npm.

npm i -g hose

Setup

chown your hosts file.

sudo chown user:user /etc/hosts

Usage

Here's the list of domains which are blocked off by default.

facebook.com
twitter.com
tweetdeck.twitter.com
www.newsblur.com
getpocket.com
clicky.com
blog.ponyfoo.com
bevacqua.io
www.echojs.com
news.ycombinator.com
lobste.rs

hose <domain> <domain> <domain>

Adds domains to the blacklist

hose -r <domain> <domain> <domain>

Removes domains from the blacklist

hose --remove-all

Wipes the blacklist

hose --list

Prints the blacklist

hose -H <hosts>

Change the file for hosts, which defaults to /etc/hosts

hose

Turns on the hose. Note that the hose is always turned on, unless we provide the --off parameter

hose --off

Turns off the hose

hose open

Opens the hosts file in $EDITOR, or vi if $EDITOR isn't set.

Advanced Usage

You can also use this program to redirect domains to a particular url. This is useful when testing web applications locally.

First off, I recommend creating a new profile.

hose -p site

Start off by creating an empty profile

hose -p site --set-trap 127.0.0.1

Trap on 127.0.0.1, rather than 0.0.0.0, so that you can visit those domains in your browser.

hose -p site <domain> <domain> <domain>

Provide a list of domains you want to be trapped.

Of course, you can also do all of the above in one fell swoop.

hose -p site --set-trap 127.0.0.1 <domain> <domain> <domain>

You need to specify the profile when turning it on or off, e.g:

hose -p site
hose -p site --off

That's it!

License

MIT