How to delete all history of specific website in google chrome

Mustafa Poya 0
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In google chrome in history section, I want to delete all the histories related to a specific website for example: facebook.com, I can search facebook.com and then select all checkboxes and delete but its a time-consuming work.

Is there any easy way to clear the history of specific websites? even by writing code or script?

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1 Answers

You can use some scripting in the console to click checkboxes for entries with hrefs containing a substring.

This answer uses this other SO answer on a querySelectorAll that works for things inside open shadow DOMs:

function $$$(selector, rootNode=document.body) {
    const arr = []
    
    const traverser = node => {
        // 1. decline all nodes that are not elements
        if(node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            return
        }
        
        // 2. add the node to the array, if it matches the selector
        if(node.matches(selector)) {
            arr.push(node)
        }
        
        // 3. loop through the children
        const children = node.children
        if (children.length) {
            for(const child of children) {
                traverser(child)
            }
        }
        
        // 4. check for shadow DOM, and loop through it's children
        const shadowRoot = node.shadowRoot
        if (shadowRoot) {
            const shadowChildren = shadowRoot.children
            for(const shadowChild of shadowChildren) {
                traverser(shadowChild)
            }
        }
    }
    
    traverser(rootNode)
    
    return arr
}

arr = $$$('[href*="example.com"]');
// this code will need to be updated if the source code for the chrome history browser changes.
arr.map(e => e.closest("#item-info")
  .previousElementSibling
  .previousElementSibling
).forEach(e=>e.click());

This will click all the matching entries on the current page, and then you can just click the button to delete the checked entries.

david fong0
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