StevenBlack/hosts
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
31.2k stars · 2.4k forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 91% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 22
- Human commits, 90 days
- 68
- Human commits, 365 days
- 317
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 5%
- Last commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 3
- Last release
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 37 hours
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 87% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 29 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 317 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 151
Top committers
- StevenBlack: 91% of commits
- XhmikosR: 4% of commits
- 30350n: 2% of commits
- data-liberator: 0% of commits
- Emile1985: 0% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Feb 11, 2016 to Feb 22, 2016: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 937 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Jun 6, 2016 to Jun 7, 2016: about 48 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 29, 2016 to Jul 30, 2016: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 20, 2016 to Nov 25, 2016: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 30, 2017 to Jun 1, 2017: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 20, 2018 to Mar 22, 2018: about 353 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 23, 2019 to Jan 25, 2019: about 216 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 10, 2019 to Jun 11, 2019: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 11, 2019 to Nov 12, 2019: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 28, 2021 to Jan 30, 2021: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 2, 2022 to May 3, 2022: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 12, 2023 to Jun 15, 2023: about 212 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 25, 2024 to Apr 1, 2024: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 13, 2024 to Jun 16, 2024: about 146 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Not known
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: StevenBlack/hosts
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2