No Batch Unfollow

[wwwerk]

Contrary to the lifehacker article, there isn't a batch unfollow command for users. Preferences > News Feed Preferences requires one to scroll through entire friends list, clicking each user to Unfollow.

[sonvirgo]

I adjust his script to new 2015 facebook update. You can see automation run and unfollowing in the page /your/friend but when you navigate to that friend timeline, you are till following? I don't know whats wrong just up load new script incase some one fix it

!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, time

import win32api

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

TODO: Use getopt instead?

That'll let me do things like configure verbose output, etc.

FB_USER = sys.argv[1] FB_PASS = sys.argv[2]

def loginToFacebook (username, password): driver.find_element_by_id('email').send_keys(FB_USER) driver.find_element_by_id('pass').send_keys(FB_PASS) driver.find_element_by_id('loginbutton').click()

def clickThruCheckpoints (driver): try: driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[name="name_action_selected"][value="dont_save"]').click() driver.find_element_by_id('checkpointSubmitButton').click() except Exception: driver.find_element_by_id('checkpointSubmitButton').click() driver.find_element_by_id('checkpointSecondaryButton').click() # "This is Okay" driver.find_element_by_css_selector('[name="name_action_selected"][value="dont_save"]').click() driver.find_element_by_id('checkpointSubmitButton').click()

def getPageHeight (driver): return int(driver.execute_script('return document.body.scrollHeight;'))

driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get('https://www.facebook.com/' + 'xinhoilaxinh.hanoine' + '/friends')

if 'Xinhoilaxinh Hanoine | Facebook' == driver.title:

MessageBox(0, FB_USER,FB_PASS, 0x00001000)

   loginToFacebook(FB_USER, FB_PASS)

try: while driver.find_element_by_id('checkpointSubmitButton'): clickThruCheckpoints(driver) except Exception: pass

Scroll until we can scroll no more!

friends_seen = 0 while True: page_height = getPageHeight(driver) friends_shown = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.uiProfileBlockContent a:not(.uiLinkSubtle)') for friend in friends_shown[friends_seen:]: print('enter ', friends_seen)
webdriver.ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(friend).perform() time.sleep(1) # Let Facebook load this hovercard, remove the old one. try: el = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CLASS_NAME, 'HovercardFollowButton')))
webdriver.ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(el).perform()
time.sleep(1) # Let Facebook load this hovercard, remove the old one.

btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH ,"//*/descendant::span[contains(text(), 'Unfollow')]")))

        btn = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.PARTIAL_LINK_TEXT, "Unfollow" ))) 
        print('name ')  #,btn.get_attribute("innerHTML") )  
        webdriver.ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(btn).click().perform() 
        webdriver.ActionChains(driver)\
           .key_down(Keys.ESCAPE) \
           .key_up(Keys.ESCAPE) \
           .perform()
        time.sleep(1) # Let Facebook load this hovercard, remove the old one.  
    except Exception as e:
        print('error element test ', e)
        pass # We're not following this person so forget it.
    finally:
        friends_seen += 1
time.sleep(3) # Give it a few seconds to load.
new_page_height = getPageHeight(driver)
if new_page_height == page_height:
    break

And we're done! :)

driver.quit()