How would you adblock using Python?
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I'm slowly building a web browser in PyQt4 and like the speed i'm getting out of it. However, I want to combine easylist.txt with it. I believe adblock uses this to block http requests by the browser.
How would you go about it using python/PyQt4?
[edit1] Ok. I think i've setup Privoxy. I haven't setup any additional filters and it seems to work. The PyQt4 i've tried to use looks like this
self.proxyIP = "127.0.0.1"
self.proxyPORT= 8118
proxy = QNetworkProxy()
proxy.setType(QNetworkProxy.HttpProxy)
proxy.setHostName(self.proxyIP)
proxy.setPort(self.proxyPORT)
QNetworkProxy.setApplicationProxy(proxy)
However, this does absolutely nothing and I cannot make sense of the docs and can not find any examples.
[edit2] I've just noticed that i'f I change self.proxyIP to my actual local IP rather than 127.0.0.1 the page doesn't load. So something is happening.
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