ufdbGuard API
Integrate a URL classifier into your application
The ufdbGuard API is a software library that can be used by any 3rd party application written in C or C++.
The API has the following properties:- classifies URLs in content categories like ads, webmail, entertainment, adult, etc.
- suitable for multithreaded applications
- loads the URL database into the memory of an on-site server, so no dependency on a cloud
- maintains statistics that the application can query
- excellent performance with 250,000 URL classifications (*) per second on an Intel E5 1650 v3 CPU with 6 cores.
- a high performance library uses database format 3.0 (**) which is optimized to be used on CPUs with advanced vector instructions (AVX) and performs 310,000 classifications per second using a single thread of the same CPU.
- version 1.35.1 and higher are also available for Linux with the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and for Marvell's MIPS64 Octeon III CN7xxx bare metal systems.
(**) requires version 1.35.1 or higher. The ufdbGuard API is different from ufdbGuard for Squid and has a different license scheme targeted for environments with large volumes. System integrators and vendors may contact the support desk for more information.