Archiving Facebook Messages and Facebook Marketplace Messages

Last Updated on June 13, 2023 EDT by Jordan

Too many Facebook Messages

I had a ton of Facebook Marketplace messages that I was annoyed with and wanted archived. So I found many resources online on using the Chrome console to run javascript to archive the messages.

Javascript Gist and More

I found a gist with the needed code, but it didn’t work. Upon reading the comments, there was updated code buried and another Github repository.

Archive all of the messages in your Facebook Messages Inbox · GitHub

Archive all of the messages in your Facebook Messages Inbox – archive-all-facebook-messages.js

gist.github.com

My modified code

I took the original code and modified it with ChatGTP. I had it limit the number of times the script would run, essentially, how many messages it would archive. I also added a delay, to make sure I didn’t get blocked by Facebook.

let executionCount = 0;

function run() {
  if (executionCount >= 100) {
    return;
  }
  
  let all = document.querySelectorAll('div[aria-label="Menu"]');
  if (all.length == 0) return;
  
  let a = all[1];
  a.click();
  
  let menuitems = document.querySelectorAll('div[role=menuitem]');
  let archiveChatRegex = /Archive chat/;
  
  for (let i = 0; i < menuitems.length; i++) {
    if (archiveChatRegex.test(menuitems[i].innerText)) {
      menuitems[i].click();
    }
  }
  
  executionCount++;
  setTimeout(run, 200); // Delay of 1 second (1000 milliseconds)
}

run();