# Is there an API command to disable ad blocking?
**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693
**Category:** FAQs
**Created:** [March 3, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693 "2018-03-03T00:24:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@FutureTense](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/FutureTense)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/1 "2018-03-03T00:24:59Z")
Iād like to be able to create a bookmark in a browser that will turn off blocking for 5 minutes, just by clicking on the bookmark, with no password authentication. Is this possible? Ideally there would be a token in the bookmark. This could also be controlled with a service like IFTTT.com
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### Author:  [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/2 "2018-03-03T00:33:28Z")
There is no way to do it without authentication. You will need to have this as your bookmark:
[http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable&auth=PWHASH](http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable&auth=PWHASH)
Where `PWHASH` is the value of `WEBPASSWORD` in `/etc/pihole/setupVars.conf`
You can also replace `disable` with `enable` to enable Pi-hole.
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### Author:  [@FutureTense](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/FutureTense)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/3 "2018-03-03T06:46:24Z")
Is there a way to disable it for only 5 minutes?
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### Author:  [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/4 "2018-03-03T17:59:43Z")
If you set the `disable` parameter to a number, it will disable it for that many seconds.
[http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=PWHASH](http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=PWHASH)
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### Author:  [@FutureTense](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/FutureTense)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/5 "2018-03-04T18:00:34Z")
> [@Mcat12](#):
>
> Where PWHASH is the value of WEBPASSWORD in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf
This should be in the FAQ. Diabling ad blocking for a short period is extremely useful.
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### Author:  [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/6 "2018-03-04T19:13:21Z")
tada! It is now an FAQ š
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### Author:  [@Mcat12](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Mcat12)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/7 "2018-03-04T20:28:06Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [Generate Disable API URL from Web Interface](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/generate-disable-api-url-from-web-interface/7744)
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### Author:  [@linkcl](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/linkcl)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/8 "2018-05-18T15:50:18Z")
Thank you for posting this information in the FAQ. I just found out about it this morning!
Currently this is a bookmark on my wife's phone's homepage where she can disable adblock for her mobile games. I set it up with curl because I plan to do more with it later this weekend. If you wish to use the script you'll need to **install php-curl** and reboot the webservice or device.
Thanks again Mcat12 for posting this information and FutureTense for requesting it.
```
.php
$PWHASH = rtrim(shell_exec('grep -oPi "(?<=WEBPASSWORD\=).+" /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf'));
$localhost = rtrim(shell_exec('grep -oPi "(?<=IPV4_ADDRESS\=).+" /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf | egrep -o "^[^\/]+"'));
$ch = curl_init("http://${localhost}/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=${PWHASH}");
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
?>
```
Use this with caution.
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### Author:  [@t\_heinrich](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/t_heinrich)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/9 "2019-08-07T16:00:38Z")
Hello,
because I don't use the dhcp function of Pi-Hole I tried this URL:
```auto
http://192.168.1.37/admin/api.php?disable=10&auth=MYPASSWORD
```
Unfortunatly it doesn't work.
With MYPASSWORD I can login into Pi-Hole.
What I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@mibere](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/mibere)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/10 "2019-08-07T16:08:30Z")
If I read the above postings the correct command is
`http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=PWHASH`
So don't use your login password but
> Where `PWHASH` is the value of `WEBPASSWORD` in `/etc/pihole/setupVars.conf`
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### Author:  [@t\_heinrich](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/t_heinrich)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/is-there-an-api-command-to-disable-ad-blocking/7693/11 "2019-08-07T18:55:44Z")
Yes you're totally right.
I was wondering if I should see any changes here when executing the Url-command.
