Block a domain for every Top Level Domain in Chrome Extension

Question

I'm looking for a solution to the match pattern rules for making a Google Chrome Extension - I'm trying to block websites such as Pinterest, the problem is that Pinterest has a million TLDs and rather than write out...

"*://pinterest.com/*, *://pinterest.se/*, *://pinterest.co.uk/*.. etc Forever

I'm trying to block all of Pinterest's Top Level Domains.

Using "*://pinterest.*/*" or "*://*.pinterest.*/*" does not work.

var blockedUrls = [ "*://*.pinterest.se/*, *://*.pinterest.com/*"];


var host = "https://www.google.com"


chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(
function(details) {
     return {redirectUrl: host };
},
{
    urls:blockedUrls,

    types: ["main_frame", "sub_frame", "stylesheet", "script", "image", "object", "xmlhttprequest", "other"]
},
["blocking"]
);

The above code works. Anyone got any idea how to do this, any nudge in the right direction would be appreciated. Many Thanks.

I wish! That causes an error, I'll make this more clear in my question. — CopyPasteThankYou, Jan 30 '18 at 11:18
causes "an error" ? Please share what the error is you get, and please share the code that throws the error instead of (or in addition to) the code that works. — GolezTrol, Jan 30 '18 at 11:24
Actually, it doesn't cause an error, it just doesn't work. Which is an error but not an ''error" — CopyPasteThankYou, Jan 30 '18 at 11:27
Have you tried using `""` and then checking the url manually (maybe with RegExp) inside your listener function? — Iván Nokonoko, Jan 30 '18 at 11:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '18 at 11:55

In the documentation you have this example:

chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(function(details) {
          return {cancel: details.url.indexOf("://www.evil.com/") != -1};
        },
        {urls: ["<all_urls>"]},
        ["blocking"]);

Just change www.evil.com/ by pinterest. and it will block all pinterest.* pages. If you want to block other subdomains like m.pinterest.com or images.pinterest.com (I don't know if these even exist) you could use RegExp.

Block a domain for every Top Level Domain in Chrome Extension

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