Pi-hole API

Feature Requests Implemented
1

If there was a RESTful (or similar) API, it would open the world to accessing the Pi-hole. A developer could write an extension that could turn the Pi-hole off and on; add sites to the white and blacklist or change the blocklists.

The two way nature of an API could be useful in showing stats without having the need to have a web browser open.

2

I always love doing this:

https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=pihole%20restful%20api

Work in progress :wink:

3

For the shell lovers:

pi@noads:~ $ surfraw duckduckgo -l pihole restful api
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4

From the readme.md:
Work in progress HTTP API for Pi-hole. It accesses the internal FTL API through a Unix domain socket

Domain sockets only work on the server. What I was meaning was something like:

http://pi.hole/api?key=key&secret=secret&cmd=disable

So a 3rd party developer could access the Pi-hole remotely with a shared key and secret.

5

https://pi-hole.net/2018/10/15/announcing-our-restful-api-contributions-welcome/

"the API will host the Web interface"
"The API exposes a RESTful HTTP API which is used by the web interface"

Yes oc a socket, the TCP 80 or 443 one :wink:

6

There is more information and up to date code available on the development branch: GitHub - pi-hole/api at development

This API does host a HTTP interface. An example request would be:

GET http://pi.hole/admin/api/stats/summary
X-Pi-hole-Authenticate: <secret_here>

Response (dev server, so not many blocked queries):

{
  "active_clients": 1,
  "blocked_queries": 0,
  "cached_queries": 0,
  "forwarded_queries": 33442,
  "gravity_size": 112866,
  "percent_blocked": 0.0,
  "reply_types": {
    "CNAME": 0,
    "DOMAIN": 0,
    "IP": 0,
    "NODATA": 0,
    "NXDOMAIN": 0
  },
  "status": "enabled",
  "total_clients": 1,
  "total_queries": {
    "A": 16673,
    "AAAA": 16673,
    "ANY": 0,
    "PTR": 96,
    "SOA": 0,
    "SRV": 0,
    "TXT": 0
  },
  "unique_domains": 16
}
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API Endpoints for list manipulations in pihole v5.0