Requesting Allowlist additions

Why do we have an allowlist?¶

Our allowlist is in place to prevent malicious actors from using free accounts to hack into and generally spam other websites anonymously.

It does not apply to paid accounts, as we can link them to real people via the payment details -- so they have unrestricted Internet access.

You will find the list of sites currently allowed for free accounts here.

Requesting an addition to the allowlist¶

We only add sites to the list if they have an official, public, documented API -- ie, sites that are designed and intended for machine consumption rather than human consumption.

If you would like us to allowlist a site, you can submit a request on this page; select the "Anaconda Notebooks/PythonAnywhere Allow List Request" option. You will need to provide:

• Your email address, so that we can let you know when it's done, or if we have questions.
• A link to the API documentation. Particularly to documentation that states the domain where the API is published.
• The domain or domains (including subdomains) that the API is served from.

GitLab instances¶

GitLab instances are a special case; we are currently allowing the allowlisting of any GitLab instance if it has public repositories available on it -- even if it doesn't allow people in general to sign up for accounts.

If you would like a GitLab instance to be allowlisted, send us a link to a public repository hosted there.