Hosts: It'd be cool to have a PowerShell script to pull the latest copy periodically.

[marknoble]

[StevenBlack]

Feel free to submit one!

The permanent location is
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts

[Sadi58]

Something like this one? ;-)
https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock

[matijagrcic]

Here you go.

$hostsRequest = (Invoke-Webrequest -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts")
$currentDate = ((get-date).ToUniversalTime()).ToString("dd-MM-yyyy hh-mm-ss")
$filePath = "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host-{0}.{1}"

if($hostsRequest.StatusCode -eq 200){
    $captureDomainRegex = "^(?:\d{1}\.\d{1}\.\d{1}.\d{1} )(.+)"
    $hosts = [PsCustomObject]@{unique=@(); duplicate=@();}

    $hostsRequest.Content | out-file -filepath ($filePath -f $currentDate, "txt")

    foreach ($line in Get-Content ($filePath -f $currentDate, "txt")){
        if($line -match $captureDomainRegex) {
            if($hosts.unique -contains $matches[1]){
                $hosts.duplicate += $matches[1]
            }else{
                $hosts.unique += $matches[1]
            }
        }
    }
    ConvertTo-Json $hosts | out-file -filepath ($filePath -f $currentDate, "json")
}

#load json and get the count of unique entries 
#(Get-Content ($filePath -f $currentDate, "json") | ConvertFrom-Json).unique.Count

This would create host.txt wherever your path is set to, then it will read that file and create
host.json with the following structure

{
    "unique":  [
                   "0koryu0.easter.ne.jp",
                   "1-atraffickim.tf",
                   "10-trafficimj.tf",
                   "109-204-26-16.netconnexion.managedbroadband.co.uk",
                   "11-atraasikim.tf",
                   "11.lamarianella.info",
                   "12-tgaffickvcmb.tf",
                   "13-ctscfficim.tf",
                   "alsoknowsit.com"
               ],
    "duplicate":  [
                      "11-atraasikim.tf",
                      "11.lamarianella.info"
                  ]
}

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[msenturk]

This one seems to work for me. You can run it with task scheduler for periodically updates.

# Create temp folder..
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path 'C:\Hosts\'
Set-Location C:\Hosts\
wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts' -OutFile hosts
# Clean up and remove dublicates ..
Get-Content hosts | Where { $_ -notmatch "\#" } | Where {$_.trim() -ne " " } | Sort-Object -Unique | Set-Content final
# Back-up and Update hostsfile..
Copy-Item -Recurse "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" -Destination "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.bak"
Copy-Item -Recurse ".\final" -Destination "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts"
# FlushDNS..
CMD.EXE /C "ipconfig /flushdns" 
Write-Host "`nHosts File Updated" -ForegroundColor Green
rm .\final -Recurse

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[sn0wflake]

$hosts = "$env:windirSystem32driversetchosts"
$hosts_custom = "C:UsersXXXXXXOneDrivehosts.custom.txt"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts -OutFile $hosts
if (Test-Path -Path $hosts_custom) {Get-Content $hosts_custom | Add-Content -Path $hosts}
C:WINDOWSsystem32cmd.exe /C C:WINDOWSsystem32ipconfig /flushdns

[ScriptTiger]

Does it count if it's not PowerShell?

https://github.com/ScriptTiger/Unified-Hosts-AutoUpdate

[elico]

@sn0wflake Invoke-WebRequest works only from a specific version of powershell and I have seen that on Windows Server 2008 it doesn't by default.

[StevenBlack]

Closing this now. This is an old issue, and Windows is too fragmented. Folks are of course free to automate their own workflows.