stevenblack_cat: Get Category from Steven Black's Host List

In rdomains: Get the Category of Content Hosted by a Domain

Get Category from Steven Black's Host List

Description

Classifies domains based on Steven Black's unified host list which blocks ads, malware, and tracking domains. The function checks if a domain appears in the blocklist and categorizes it accordingly.

Usage

stevenblack_cat(domain = NULL, use_file = NULL)

Arguments

domain	domain names as character vector
use_file	path to a local Steven Black hosts file. If NULL, downloads from GitHub

Details

Steven Black's host list is a consolidated list from multiple sources including adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, and someonewhocares.org.

Value

data.frame with original domain name and category

References

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Examples

## Not run: 
stevenblack_cat("doubleclick.net")
stevenblack_cat(c("google.com", "googleadservices.com", "malware-example.com"))

## End(Not run)

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