# Preventing malicious linking

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-malicious-linking/37982
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 15, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-malicious-linking/37982 "2016-01-15T03:07:44Z")
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### Author: ![Sudaraka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sudaraka/32/68401_2.png) [@Sudaraka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sudaraka)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preventing-malicious-linking/37982/35 "2017-12-24T12:58:52Z")

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Here is my plugin

> [@Plugin for Preventing Malicious Linking](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-for-preventing-malicious-linking/76693):
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> This is a simple plugin for adding a warning to posts when there are malicious urls present in the content of the post. For identifying malicious urls this plugin uses [Google Safe Browsing API V4](https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/) . The warning appears as below For getting this plugin to work , you need to obtain an API key to access the Google Safe Browsing API . You have to follow [this](https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/get-started) guideline to get an API key. Other than the API key you need a Client ID and a Client Version. These details are used by google for …

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