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-#+title: How to Easily Mass Unlike Tumblr Posts with Javascript
-#+date: 2023-01-05
-#+description: Learn how to unlike Tumblr posts en masse in the browser.
-#+filetags: :dev:
-
-* The Dilemma
-The dilemma I had was pretty simple: I wanted to unlike all the posts I
-have liked on Tumblr so that I could follow a new focus on blogs and
-start fresh. Otherwise, Tumblr will keep recommending content based on
-your previous likes.
-
-* The Solution
-I searched the web for a while and noted that most solutions referenced
-Tumblr setting and dashboard pages that no longer exist. Additionally, I
-did not want to install a third party extension to do this, as some
-suggested.
-
-Luckily, I used Javascript for a while a few years ago and figured it
-would be easy enough to script a solution, as long as Tumblr had a
-system for the unlike buttons.
-
-** Identifying Unlike Buttons
-Tumblr's unlike buttons are structured as you can see in the following
-code block. All unlike buttons have an =aria-label= with a value of
-=Unlike=.
-
-#+begin_src html
-<button class="TRX6J" aria-label="Unlike">
- <span class="EvhBA B1Z5w ztpfZ" tabindex="-1">
- <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="21" width="23"
- role="presentation">
- <use href="#managed-icon__like-filled"></use>
- </svg>
- </span>
-</button>
-#+end_src
-
-** Running a Script to Unlike All Likes
-To run this script, you will need to load the
-[[https://www.tumblr.com/likes][Likes | Tumblr]] page while logged in to
-your account.
-
-Further, be sure to scroll down to the bottom and force Tumblr to load
-more posts so that this script unlikes more posts at a time.
-
-Once you are logged in and the page is loaded, open the Developer Tools
-and be sure you're on the "Console" tab. It should look something like
-this (this is in Firefox, Chromium should be similar):
-
-#+caption: Firefox Dev !Tools
-[[https:///img.cleberg.net/blog/20230105-mass-unlike-tumblr-posts/dev_console.png]]
-
-All you need to do is paste the following snippet into the dev console.
-This code will collect all unlike buttons (=elements=) and then click
-each button to unlike it.
-
-Optionally, you can comment-out the line =elements[i].click();= and
-uncomment the =console.log()= lines to simply print out information
-without performing any actions. This can be useful to debug issues or
-confirm that the code below isn't doing anything you don't want it to.
-
-#+begin_src javascript
-const elements = document.querySelectorAll('[aria-label="Unlike"]');
-// console.log(elements); // 👉 [button]
-
-for (let i=0; i < elements.length; i++) {
- // console.log(elements[i]);
- elements[i].click();
-}
-#+end_src
-
-* Results
-The results were quick for my situation, as it unliked ~200 posts within
-2-3 seconds. I am not sure how this will perform on larger sets of likes
-(or if Tumblr has a limit to unliking posts).
-
-You can see the below screenshot showing that I pasted the snippet into
-the console, pressed Enter, and then the posts are automatically
-unliked.
-
-#+caption: Script !Results
-[[https:///img.cleberg.net/blog/20230105-mass-unlike-tumblr-posts/script_results.png]]
-
-Thinking about this further, I would bet that this would be fairly
-simple to package into a browser add-on so that users could install the
-add-on, go to their Likes page, and click a button to run the script.
-Food for thought.