DeleteFB/README.md

Why?

I needed a simple and reliable way to delete Facebook posts. There are third-party apps that claim to do this, but they all require handing over your credentials, or are unreliable in other ways. Since this uses Selenium, it is more reliable, as it uses your real web browser, and it is less likely Facebook will block or throttle you.

As for why you would want to do this in the first place. That is up to you. Personally I wanted a way to delete most of my content on Facebook without deleting my account.

How To Use

• Make sure that you have Google Chrome installed and that it is up to date, as well as the chromedriver for Selenium. See here.
• pip3 install --user delete-facebook-posts
• deletefb -E "youremail@example.org" -P "yourfacebookpassword" -U "https://www.facebook.com/your.profile.url"
• The script will log into your Facebook account, go to your profile page, and start deleting posts. If it cannot delete something, then it will "hide" it from your timeline instead.
• Be patient as it will take a very long time, but it will eventually clear everything. You may safely minimize the chrome window without breaking it.

How To Install Python

MacOS

See this link for instructions on installing with Brew.

Linux

Use your native package manager

Windows

See this link, but I make no guarantees that Selenium will actually work as I have not tested it.

Bugs

If it stops working or otherwise crashes, delete the latest post manually and start it again after waiting a minute. I make no guarantees that it will work perfectly for every profile. Please file an issue if you run into any problems.