Automate Scrubbing your Facebook Presence
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import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains
from .common import SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS, archiver
# Used as a threshold to avoid running forever
MAX_POSTS = 15000
def delete_posts(driver,
user_profile_url,
year=None):
"""
Deletes or hides all posts from the wall
"""
if not year is None:
user_profile_url = "{0}/timeline?year={1}".format(user_profile_url, year)
driver.get(user_profile_url)
for _ in range(MAX_POSTS):
post_button_sel = "_4xev"
post_content_sel = "userContent"
post_timestamp_sel = "timestampContent"
wall_log, archive_wall_post = archiver("wall")
while True:
try:
timeline_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_button_sel)
post_content_element = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_content_sel)
post_content_ts = driver.find_element_by_class_name(post_timestamp_sel)
archive_wall_post(post_content_element.text, timestamp=post_content_ts.text)
actions = ActionChains(driver)
actions.move_to_element(timeline_element).click().perform()
menu = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("#globalContainer > div.uiContextualLayerPositioner.uiLayer > div")
actions.move_to_element(menu).perform()
try:
delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"FeedDeleteOption\"]")
except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS:
try:
delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"HIDE_FROM_TIMELINE\"]")
except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS:
delete_button = menu.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@data-feed-option-name=\"UNTAG\"]")
actions.move_to_element(delete_button).click().perform()
confirmation_button = driver.find_element_by_class_name("layerConfirm")
# Facebook would not let me get focus on this button without some custom JS
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", confirmation_button)
except SELENIUM_EXCEPTIONS:
continue
else:
break
wall_log.close()
# Required to sleep the thread for a bit after using JS to click this button
time.sleep(5)
driver.refresh()