Cut the crap from Intercept

Turning on your Burp intercept can sometimes be a headache.
When a site is using several trackers, embedded videos, and 3rd party fonts it can be a hassle to click thru two dozen intercepted requests before getting to the one of interest.

This article will teach you how to:

1. Exclude domains from your Interceptor
2. How to save and reload the ‘Do Not Intercept’ list

In next screen shot we caught a request from an embedded Youtube video.
To lower the noise we have to deal with, lets add this domain to our “Don’t Intercept’ list.

How to exclude a domain from Intercept

1. Right click on request
2. Don’t intercept requests -> To this Host

*.googlevideo.com noise from an embedded Youtube video

3. Options

4. Under ‘Intercept Client Requests’ find your most recent addition

5. Click ‘Edit’

6. Change the ‘Match Condition’ into a wildcard.

^*\.googlevideo\.com$