Redirect any domain to localhost for convenience or productivity!

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

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

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