Safe Browsing.NET

Safe Browsing.NET is an opinionated .NET implementation of the Google Safe Browsing API. It is written in C#, supports Google Safe Browsing API 4, and has a flexible and modular API that is ridiculously easy to learn, pick up, and extend.

Features

  • Safe Browsing.NET supports any .NET Runtime that supports .NET Standard 2.0
  • Safe Browsing.NET supports Google Safe Browsing API 4
  • Safe Browsing.NET has a flexible and modular API that is ridiculously easy to learn, pick up, and extend
  • Safe Browsing.NET is flexible. Want an HTTP client to simply communicate with the Google Safe Browsing API and handle the response yourself? Safe Browsing.NET has you covered. Want a service to setup and manage a threat database for you? That's covered too
  • Safe Browsing.NET is modular. Unhappy with the default HTTP client implementation and want to implement one yourself? Safe Browsing.NET has you covered. Want to implement support for a database engine that is not natively supported? That's covered too

Limitations

  • Safe Browsing.NET only implements the Google Safe Browsing Update API. It does not implement the Google Safe Browsing Lookup API. Typically, this should not be a problem because Safe Browsing.NET has APIs that will setup and manage for you the threat database required by the Google Safe Browsing Update API. Additionally, the Google Safe Browsing Update API is generally considered more private since URLs that are looked up will not be shared with Google
  • Safe Browsing.NET does not implement Rice compression when retrieving threat lists from the Google Safe Browsing API. However, it does implement standard HTTP compression and will automatically set the correct HTTP compression request headers when retrieving threat lists from the Google Safe Browsing API
  • Safe Browsing.NET does not implement back-off mode if communication with the Google Safe Browsing API fails. You should consider implementing this feature yourself in your application until such time it is implemented natively by Safe Browsing.NET

Disclaimer

Safe Browsing.NET is an independently developed project. It is not a Google developed nor is it a Google sponsored project. It is not affiliated with Google in any way.

Getting started

Create a Google Account

You'll need to create a Google account, a Google Developer Console project, a Google Safe Browsing API Key, and activate the Google Safe Browsing API within your Google Developer Console project. For more information, please see the Google Safe Browsing API documentation.

You should review the Google Safe Browsing API Terms of Service to avoid having your account disabled by Google. For more information, please see the Google Safe Browsing API documentation.

Google enforces usage limits on consumers of the Google Safe Browsing API. You should review these usage limits to avoid having your account disabled by Google. For more information, please see the Google Safe Browsing API documentation.

Download Safe Browsing.NET

Safe Browsing.NET is distributed as a NuGet package. Either open the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio and search for "Safe Browsing.NET" or head over to the NuGet website and download the NuGet package yourself.

The current version is a pre-release version. Please make sure you select include prerelease in the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio in order to install it. For more information, please see the NuGet documentation.