Binary Defense Artillery Banlist

Use in your agent

Load the Artillery IP banlist into pandas and Parquet. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 1, 2026.

Access

• No account or key. The plain-text banlist is a public HTTPS download for permitted non-commercial use.

Request

curl 'https://www.binarydefense.com/banlist.txt'

Format

Commented plain text followed by one IPv4 address per line, without per-address timestamps, categories, confidence or provenance.

Load into pandas and Parquet

Needs Python 3 with requests, pandas and pyarrow.

"""Binary Defense Artillery banlist -> pandas -> Parquet. No key."""
import io
import ipaddress
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://www.binarydefense.com/banlist.txt"
r = requests.get(URL, timeout=60)
r.raise_for_status()
values = []
for line in io.StringIO(r.text):
    value = line.strip()
    if value and not value.startswith("#"):
        values.append(str(ipaddress.ip_address(value)))
df = pd.DataFrame({"ip_address": values}).drop_duplicates()
df.to_parquet("binary_defense_artillery_banlist.parquet", index=False)
print(len(df), "unique IP addresses")

Run by us on 2026-11-01 (python 3.13.5 | pandas 3.1.0 | pyarrow 26.0.0 | requests 2.34.2). Result: 731 unique IP addresses

Limits

• Rate limit: Not stated.
• No direct-file update schedule, historical archive or download cap is stated.
• Commercial service use and redistribution are prohibited by the accompanying terms.

Quirks

• Skip comment and blank lines, validate each remaining value as an IP address and deduplicate before storage.
• The feed has no per-address age, reason, source or confidence fields; retain retrieval time outside the payload.
• Do not connect to, visit or fetch content from any listed address.

Terms and attribution

• The feed is for public use but not commercial resale or a paid service.
• The site terms limit downloaded materials to personal, non-commercial use and prohibit sharing or redistribution.

Sources

• https://www.binarydefense.com/banlist.txt: “Note that this is for public use only.”
• https://www.binarydefense.com/banlist.txt: “Use of these feeds for commerical (having others pay for a service) use is strictly prohibited.”
• https://binarydefense.com/resources/blog/project-artillery-is-now-a-binary-defense-project/: “Artillery was a tool I created a number of years ago to create a way for early warning indicators and open source threat intelligence feeds.”
• https://binarydefense.com/terms-conditions: “may only be used for your personal and non-commercial use”