# gfwlist/gfwlist

The one and only one gfwlist here

Repository: https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gfwlist
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Topics: china, censorship-circumvention, anticensorship, gfw, censorship
Last push: 2026-08-23T06:48:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4191, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 25554, forks 3992 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:38.269331+00:00)

## What it is
GFWList is the canonical community-maintained blocklist of censored domains used by proxy tools to bypass the Great Firewall of China. It is distributed as a base64-encoded gfwlist.txt file that proxy clients subscribe to for routing decisions.

## Use cases
- subscribe to a proxy auto-config rule list for circumventing censorship
- get blocked-domain list for Shadowsocks or SwitchyOmega
- find CDN mirrors of gfwlist.txt accessible from China
- report newly blocked websites to a censorship circumvention list
- maintain a PAC file with up-to-date blocked domains

## When to choose
- you need the canonical, widely-supported GFW blocklist for proxy clients
- you want a community-maintained list with anonymous PGP-encrypted submission
- your proxy tool supports autoproxy/gfwlist format subscriptions

## When to avoid
- you need per-application or IP-based routing rules rather than domain lists
- you are outside a censored network and have no use for proxy routing rules
- you need real-time updates, since the list is batch-updated after testing

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, privacy, security
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking
- platform: cross-platform, browser, cli
- tags: gfw, proxy-rules, anticensorship, china, subscription-list, autoproxy

## Member repositories
- gfwlist/gfwlist (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.269331+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:02.126836+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gfwlist/gfwlist (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.269331+00:00, sha 70d2b8c2bf14)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.