Gravity won't update lists

[majere39]

Expected Behaviour:

Hi I'm running pihole with unbound on a remote vm behind wireguard vpn setup. I've noticed that all my added lists don't seem to be updating when I try to add new ones.
Ubuntu 23.10
Virtual Machine

Actual Behaviour:

What happens is the default list hasn't changed.

Debug Token:

The token is: B82kI0W3

[chrislph]

Can you describe exactly what you are doing and what you expect to see, and then what you actually see instead, please? You mentioned trying to add new lists but then describe that a default list hasn't changed, and it's not clear why it would change when adding new lists, or what changes you're looking for. Just trying to get a clear understanding of what the issue is.

[jfb]

What is the complete output of

pihole -g -f

[Bucking_Horn]

@majere39

I've noticed that all my added lists don't seem to be updating when I try to add new ones.

Adding a list won't update Pi-hole's gravity database, see the Hints directly below the Address on Add a new adlist:

Did you update gravity yet?

[majere39]

Hi everyone thanks for the replies. I’ve used pihole -g multiple times but I noticed the output stating that it parsed 0 domains. Could this be the cause?

[majere39]

For clarification I’ve used the pihole -g command to update the lists manually on the host as well used the ui to update them. I’ve also changed the perms to pihole for all the lists but I believe they had read access beforehand. After this I still saw no change, but today I noticed the some output of pihole -g said parsed 0 domains. I’m thinking it could be related to pihole not reading the lists.

[rdwebdesign]

Most of your links are not pointing to list files.
They are pointing to Github pages, showing the repository contents.
(You can see the difference if you open the links on your browser.)

Example of a good link:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
  This link will show only the file contents (text files)

Examples of bad links:

• https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/blob/7e8dc7a1bdc305bd3293489537fd1b8cd31ac44a/adblock/doh.txt
• https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/blob/7e8dc7a1bdc305bd3293489537fd1b8cd31ac44a/adblock/dyndns.txt
• https://github.com/kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole/blob/d19fdd35227d7ec4186047c3f9d1b7f58ae48858/crowed_list.txt
  These links are showing HTML pages, not text files.

[chrislph]

@majere39

I’m thinking it could be related to pihole not reading the lists.

rdwebdesign is right, this looks to be the problem. Your log shows most of your adlist links are using github.com. This won't work because they give the GitHub page, with the menus, the profile image, the meu list and so on. Those links are for humans to interact with.

What Pi-hole needs is just the actual raw text file. GitHub has a special address for that. To get to it, first copy one of your github.com links from Pi-hole and paste into a browser. You'll see the page load up.

Then edit the URL and replace the word blob with the word raw and press Enter.

You'll see that GitHub will bounce you over to the raw file, and it's just a .txt file of the list sitting on raw.githubusercontent.com

Copy that full link from the browser address bar. That is the link you need to put into Pi-hole for this adlist.

Delete the old github.com adlist and add this new raw.githubusercontent.com adlist. Do that for all your github.com links.

Once all done, run a Gravity Update so Pi-hole can update its database with all these new domains.

[majere39]

Thank you everyone! The issue was because of I needed the raw file.