is subscriptions2.xml discontinued?
Moderator: njones
is subscriptions2.xml discontinued?
I was using https://adblockplus.org/subscriptions2.xml to monitor the available subscriptions and filter lists. Looks like it was discontinued a couple of days ago and now returns 4404. Is there a plan to bring it back or are there alternative machine readable resources?
Re: is subscriptions2.xml discontinued?
We used the subscriptions2.xml file in older versions of Adblock Plus for Firefox for dynamically downloading a list of additional filter lists to offer in the extension's filter settings. With Firefox' switch to Web Extensions, and our respective Adblock Plus 3.0 release in 2017 to adjust to that, we no longer included that feature and therefore stopped using that file.
Due to that, there was no need anymore for keeping this file updated and online. But please let us know about for what purpose you were using that file to help us better understand whether there are use cases we didn't consider and that are worth providing alternatives for.
That being said, the data based on which that file, as well as other sources (e.g. adblockpluscore/data/subscriptions.json, adblockplus.org/subscriptions), are generated from, remains unchanged. You can find that raw data at gitlab.com/eyeo/filterlists/subscriptionlist.
Due to that, there was no need anymore for keeping this file updated and online. But please let us know about for what purpose you were using that file to help us better understand whether there are use cases we didn't consider and that are worth providing alternatives for.
That being said, the data based on which that file, as well as other sources (e.g. adblockpluscore/data/subscriptions.json, adblockplus.org/subscriptions), are generated from, remains unchanged. You can find that raw data at gitlab.com/eyeo/filterlists/subscriptionlist.
Re: is subscriptions2.xml discontinued?
Thank you very much. This is exactly the information I was looking for. Will use the raw subscription list instead.