dividedgibon / facebook_messages_bulk

A few simple scripts to move/archive facebook chats in bulk.

Facebook Messages Bulk Changes

This repository contains code to bulk edit Facebook Messenger chats/messages by archiving, unarchiving, or deleting them. Unfortunately, Facebook does not provide a built-in function for bulk editing of chats, hence this code works at the browser level to manipulate the browser console.

Usage

1. Open Facebook Messenger in a desktop web browser. Google Chrome is recommended (tested as of May '23).
2. Navigate to the chat folder you want to bulk edit (main chats, marketplace, or already archived chats).
3. Open the Chrome "three dots menu" located at the top-right next to your profile picture and click "More Tools" -> "Developer Tools". Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut "CTRL+SHIFT+I". This will open the developer web tools, which should split the web interface window and open on the right-hand of the screen (or in a separate window).
4. In the developer interface, click on "Console" at the top (next to "Elements").
5. Choose one of the following code files: Archive.js, Unarchive.js, or Delete.js.
6. Paste the contents of the chosen file into the console and hit Enter.
7. You'll get a browser-level prompt to confirm you want the code to run. Finally, leave it to do its thing. If you have hundreds of chats, it may take some time to complete.

Notes

• This code has only been tested in Google Chrome but may work in other browsers.
• This code is efficient, but if you have hundreds of chats, you may need to take a break and leave the browser open to finish the task.
• Facebook Messenger's web build may change at any time, which may cause this code to stop working.

facebook_messages_bulk's Issues

Handle message requests

I have several hundred message requests (including a bunch under "spam") that I would love to delete. This doesn't seem to work with those - do you know if this will work on those?

not working

tried to archive all chats, but not working.
Maybe due to some UI changes, please update.

Delete.js does not work

The JS to delete does not function.

1. The Regex - should be /Delete Chat/
2. FB have now an additional confirmation prompt to ok the delete which the JS misses.

Error on final message

Not a big deal as it works very well - thanks for writing this! 💯

When I run it, it throws error "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'click')/ Subsequent non-fatal errors won't be logged; see https://fburl.com/debugjs." when it gets to the last message, leaving one final message in the box.

(Of course, it's easy to delete the last one manually and this might be by design, since there is no way to know how many), but wanted to check/note.

Thanks!

Clarification on Readme

Open Facebook Messenger in a desktop web browser with developer options enabled

Does it mean that we need to open the web developer tools of browser? But I am not sure as this is Step 3 in the Readme.md

I could not find such option on Facebook Messenger

"undefined" error

I tried this a few days on my archived messages and it worked to unarchive

However I'm testing it today and I'm just getting the "undefined" error.