Update interval (in minutes) per list

[wo-it]

Hi,

thank you for pi-hole, this is a awesome project!

I testing some lists at the moment, some has a update frequency of one week some of 20 minutes.
At the moment I can only update all lists with pihole -g this result in high load on the servers with the once a week updated lists.

Is it possible to add a interval (minutes) per list when the next update should run?
Here was a topic but no solution:

Own time interval for updating the blocklist

At the moment our blocklist updates once a week, is it possible to add an option to have one(or more) of the items added to the blocklist update more frequently? Custom value is welcome. I ask this because we have an institution in PL that issues warnings and manages its own list of unsafe domains their list is updated very often[1], they claim every 5 minutes. It would be useful for my parents. They are elderly people and you never know what they will click on. 1.The address of the site of the…

Thank you.

[nite_route]

there isnt a per-list update interval in pi-hole right now. gravity rebuild is all-or-nothing, so pihole -g hits every subscribed list.

workaround that usually works when one list updates every few minutes: dont point gravity at that remote url directly. cron a small script that curls the hot list into a local file (like /var/lib/pihole/hotlist.txt), add that file path as the adlist, and keep normal gravity on a slower schedule for everything else. then only your cron hammers the fast list. the weekly ones stay quiet.

still a fair feature request for real per-list timers. that path just avoids beating the slow providers every 20 min.

[wo-it]

Thanks for your reply.

@nite_route

cron a small script that curls the hot list into a local file (like /var/lib/pihole/hotlist.txt), add that file path as the adlist, and keep normal gravity on a slower schedule for everything else.

That was my idea first, but unfortunately I have no change to load the list every hour into pi-hole. I wrote a script to download all the other lists once a day into files and added this files into pi-hole by file:///

The high frequency update lists are now direct in pi-hole with a gravity update interval of one hour.

Update interval per list will be a very useful to reduce the unnecessary load on public lists.