• UPDATE (Aug 9, 2010)

    Hi guys, there won't be any new content in the next few months, especially related to any Facebook stuff. I'm really tied up with a couple of other websites I'm developing. When things die down, I'll be back with more awesome imacros scripts. Until then - keep your info private & don't post things you don't want to go public! - Cynthia
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How To Delete All Facebook Groups And Wall Posts From Facebook Using Imacros

By Cynthia On August 29, 2009 Under Facebook

A little story time before we get into the technical details.

I have an old unused Facebook account that I was actively on for the past 2 years. But I stopped using it at a point because there was too much group spam in my Facebook inbox. You know those annoying groups that send you messages once per day, multiply that by X number of groups you have, then multiply it by about 10%, and you get an inbox full of crap you don’t really care about – daily.

I was busy at the time, and I was simply too lazy to delete my groups manually. So I abandoned the profile, opened a new one, and added back people I wanted to keep in touch with.

Fast forward to today. I now know how to use imacros for automating a lot of my tasks! Armed with this new knowledge, I created a simple imacros script, looped it about 200 times, walked away to get some snacks, came back…Done!

All 200 something Facebook Groups are gone from my profile! Okay with the exception of 3 groups that I created myself. Those are still there. But my profile is now spic and span.

It is so damn cool I cannot express it in words. You really just need to try it yourself.

I repeated the same thing with deleting wall posts – this was a little more buggy, but I still managed to get it to work. It messes up at some point and shows “failures” but that’s alright. Better than deleting all of them manually one by one. You’d get carpel tunnel in no time from that.

Download Imacros

If you don’t know what imacros is, you might want to read up on it here. It looks a bit intimidating at first, but imacros is seriously the easiest automation software/plugin to use.

I recommend imacros for Firefox. You can install the plugin here.

To open up imacros in the sidebar, press F8. Once you’ve got imacros on your Firefox, do a mock record – meaning, go to Play > Record > Then click Stop right away. Then click Save. Enter a descriptive name for it like “delete Facebook groups .” You should now see it in the left sidebar. Right click on the .iim file and go to “edit macro.”

The Imacros Script (Delete All Facebook groups)

Paste in:

VERSION BUILD=6111228 RECORDER=FX <– note that this line will be different if you have a different version of imacros
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 100
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Leave<SP>Group
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:remove&&VALUE:Remove
WAIT SECONDS=2

Now you should be already on the Facebook Groups page itself BEFORE running this macro. When I ran it, there was one instance of a timeout, but that didn’t stop the script itself, so just click “close” on the timeout notice when you see it and it’ll be fine.

*** IMPORTANT *** Remember to click Play(loop) when running this macro and specify however many groups you have. This will loop the script, so it’ll run X amount of times.

You may be wondering… well, what if I don’t want to delete ALL my groups? Well, then it will be a bit tricky. What I’d do is, open these groups in a new tab, so when you’ve wiped out all the groups, you can add them back easily.

The Imacros Script (Delete All Facebook Wall Posts)

Repeat the same thing. Go to Play > Record > Then click Stop right away. Click save, enter a name, and then edit the .iim file.

Then paste in:

VERSION BUILD=6111228 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 100
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=3
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=3
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=3
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=3
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=3
REFRESH

You may get multiple errors when running this, that’s why I add in “refresh” at the end of the script so it’ll refresh the page. It’s very likely that you have to make some edits or changes. You may need to click “older posts” on your Facebook wall, especially closer to the end of your wall posts. This script is easy to modify and should be easy to understand. I’m assuming you have at least some basic knowledge of it.

***UPDATE*** (June 15, 2010)
Unfortunately I can’t help you all with your individual questions at the time. If I was lying on a beach in the Bahamas right now, I would definitely go through and try to respond to every question.

But I don’t have that luxury (yet!), so if you have a few minutes to spare, I would scroll through the comments left by other people who got it working. There are a lot of gems here!

Since this script does not include the “older posts” button when I first created it, please scroll down further in the comments for the modifications.

117 comments - add yours
a facebook user

September 1, 2009

omg wow thx very much
i joined to many groups for the mafia wars game to get more ppl in my mafia and free gift, been looking how i could leave all groups,
this finally got the job done, awesome thx

Cynthia

September 1, 2009

Oh cool, that’s awesome! Didn’t think people would use it for mafia wars, but yeah that’s a really good idea actually.

Sherry

September 21, 2009

Have you ever created a macro for deleting multiply people off your friends list in Facebook?

Cynthia

September 22, 2009

@Sherry – No I haven’t, because I haven’t had a need to delete people from my friends list! I just create new FB accounts ;)

Sorry I won’t be able to test it for you, since I don’t want to delete anyone on my list, but here are instructions you can follow to create your own.

1. First, if you want to delete specific people, put them all into a new Friend List.
2. Fire up imacros and record yourself deleting everyone down the page by clicking on the “X” button. (In theory this should work but sometimes it doesn’t
3. Stop it, and save it.

Now the next time you want to delete more people, just put them in this Friend List for removal, and just run the macro.

It’s not exactly automated, but that’s what I can think of.

Cynthia

September 22, 2009

Or, if you’re thinking ahead and have people you MAY want to get rid of in the future, stick them in that Friend List to begin with. Then it’ll be easier later on to remove them.

Angela

October 6, 2009

Hey, I am completely new to this, but it worked so good to clear up my facebook…but now I have run into the problem of it not continuing b/c of the older posts button preventing it…I know you mentioned this in your write-up , but i have no idea how to program that step in…thanks!

Xsouldeath

October 9, 2009

thank you so much.! I will leave this on for a few years and it will delete them all :P .. I guess that’s the only GUI way.. If only you could delete them by executing the JavaScript function directly.. Rather than seeing button clicks or whatever..
I suggest you record the “Just ” and add that to the top of the macro if you want to delete just your wall posts.

Xsouldeath

October 9, 2009

also important note is that Facebook only keeps roughly 2 months tops worth of of Facebook posts.. For someone who posts like 25 posts a day that is. so I guess overall that’s about 1500 posts…
Just so people who have been years with Facebook don’t get discouraged and think they will need to run this for years.

P.Chachi

November 4, 2009

Thank you THank you Thank you!!
Your article just pimped up my profile by 500%.
Now I can worry about other stuff.
YOu rock.
Much love.
P

Matt

November 11, 2009

What would I do to the script to make it so it leaves the first two wall posts alone?

Nixa

November 22, 2009

Thank you so much!

I wrote a macro for removing fan pages (only thing u have to change in macro is USERID):

VERSION BUILD=6240709 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 10
URL GOTO=http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=info&ref=nf&id=USERID
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:/social_graph.php?node_id=USERID&filter=fanned
WAIT SECONDS=3
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=CLASS:UIObjectListing_Title
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:RemoveMefromFans
WAIT SECONDS=1

Gavin

November 23, 2009

Does anyone know a way for firefox to pick up text written into peoples walls, im having huge trouble getting the FF to pick up text, the submit and left click into the box are fine. IE is working fine for this, but limited to 3 loops only :(

mario

November 26, 2009

i pretty dumb at all the computer macros and computer stuff. i don’t know where to put how many groups i want i have to delete them all

Please help ! hate this fb crap !

mario

November 26, 2009

THANKS A LOT ! IT WORKED !!!!! I DELETED ALL THAT CRAP !!!!

mario

November 26, 2009

BOTH GROUPS AND WALL POSTS WERE ALL DELETED THANKS A LOT ! ! !

Sixpanel

November 26, 2009

I ran this macro, but it didn’t delete anything…what am I doing wrong?

MEP

December 13, 2009

Thank-you…. : )

Rhino

December 15, 2009

If you are so inclined, you can use the service at http://de.cipr.us and outsource the cleaning up of your profile. It costs you a few bucks, but it works on Twitter and Facebook profiles.

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Cynthia

December 16, 2009

@Angela – If it stops continuing, you just need to stop the imacro, click the “older posts” and run the imacro again.

@Matt – What to do so it leaves the first two wall posts alone – well, you need to program it differently. I think it may be as simple as changing the TAG POS=1 part to a different number. Unfortunately I can’t test it out since I don’t want to delete any of my current wall posts. Just try to delete the first page of wall posts (excluding the first 2 wall posts), and then look in the script to see how it’s different than mine. Then report back :)

@Nixa – thanks for the fan page imacro! I’m not ready to delete my fan pages yet (I love many of them) so I will pass on it for now ;)

@Sixpanel – It didn’t delete anything at all? Sometimes Facebook changes their interface, and things stop working. But it seems to be working for other people. What happens when you run the script?

Cynthia

December 16, 2009

*** ANNOUNCEMENT ***

I just wrote up another tutorial on How To Remove All Facebook E-mail Notifications In 10 Seconds.

Here’s the link to check it out: http://www.cynthiaperla.com/facebook/579/how-to-remove-all-facebook-e-mail-notifications-in-10-seconds.html

Hope you guys find it as useful!

chris

December 26, 2009

great!!

is it possible to write a macro that removes any comments on other walls, pics and so??

Gemma

December 29, 2009

Does this work on a Mac? I have loaded it but when I press ‘record’ and ‘stop’ the stop button stays illuminated and it doesn’t give me an option to save.

Azra

January 4, 2010

If you could make one for deleting all fan pages that would be great!! :)

frankiesaysrelax

January 4, 2010

this is brilliant. a pure life saver.

now does anybody know how to delete all the pages?? (‘become a fan’)
cause i have about 300 of them from when i first joined and they are SOO annoying.. any ideas???

André

January 5, 2010

This script requires your language to be set to English. Perhaps note that. Also, how do you deal with the “Older Posts” button?

Great script, though.

André

January 5, 2010

Aha! I recorded a macro of me clicking on the “older posts” button, and then stitched that into the delete script, and that worked.

Webfreak

January 18, 2010

Hi Cynthia

Thanks for this! It is definitely a gem of a script! I have all sorts of uses for it, including deleting FB posts!

Thank you very much!

Warm Regards
Jaun-Vincent
PS. My CC is maxed BUT I will return to make a donation as I always appreciate quality posts like yours.

DeWitte

January 21, 2010

Wow – you’re the bomb! That’s a lot! I was looking for a greasemonkey script to do this and then when I couldn’t find one I started writing one and in the middle of that I found your post. Excellent!

Gemma

January 25, 2010

PLEASE can someone tell me why I can’t get this to work? I am working on a Mac but using Firefox. When I open it up it tells me “Can not open null path to read macros.
Would you like to correct path settings now?” what do I click? Either way, it won’t let me PLAY, REC & SAVE. It will record and stop but won’t play or save????

PLEASE HELP ME :)

Chuck

January 26, 2010

Worked like a charm. Made a couple of modifications such as speed from 3 secs to 1 sec. I also copied and pasted the program to about 3 times the original length which made it run perfectly. Deleted 3 months of wall posts in about a half an hour. It would have taken me a whole day to do it manually. I have alot of friends on FB and there were a TON of wall posts…especially from the time between T’giving and Xmas. I had literally hundreds of posts to delete. Thx Cynthia ; ))

thebaus

January 26, 2010

@gamma: click yes and then just go to path.. put in where it will save it.
then just close the window. if any other message pops up just click yes.
Now click on edit and there click on the button “activate macrolist” or maybe “refresh macroliste” – I have the german version.

Done :)
Now you can use it.
Hope I could help.

Anonymous

January 29, 2010

Hi, I ran the script and it seemed to work fine, although, when I signed in to facebook lite all my old posts were still on my wall. I’m wondering if there is a similar macro for facebook lite?

John J

January 31, 2010

VERSION BUILD=6111228 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 100
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=1
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts

John J

January 31, 2010

The above lines inserts,
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
which clicks on the “Older Posts” button periodically.

Jim

January 31, 2010

@Sherry
Theres a Firefox Greesemonkey Script to delete multiple friends

Ebony

February 9, 2010

Ive tried this, but it doesnt delete my groups?
What am I doing wrong?

Emma

February 12, 2010

could manage to get this to work im new to all this i copied what you did but doesnt seem to of worked any ideas where im going wrong?

Emma

February 12, 2010

sorry i meant to say i couldnt get it to work ^

jake

February 15, 2010

How can I delete all comments I have ever made on facebook?

Liz

February 19, 2010

Is there a script to delete all previous status updates?

baaaaby

February 24, 2010

heheh, OMFG, thank you soo much! <3

Feroshious

February 26, 2010

Still trying to get rid of FAN pages on Facebook, still no glory… anyone got the answer?

Webotec

March 1, 2010

VERSION BUILD=6600217 RECORDER=FX
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
TAB T=1
URL GOTO=http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?v=allowed#
TAG POS=3 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php?v=allowed#
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:remove&&VALUE:Remove
WAIT SECONDS=6
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:ok&&VALUE:Okay
WAIT SECONDS=1

This is a script for removing all APLICATIONS.
If stops after one loop change this line:
WAIT SECONDS=6
to:
WAIT SECONDS=10

Set Play loop = number applicatioins + 10% :P
Example:
356 applications, Play Loop Max = ~380 :)

jack

March 2, 2010

I can not get the sidebar to come up so can not start the script. Any help would be greatly appreciated (I am new to this but have the need to erase my daughter’s facebook wall…) Thanks!

Ducky

March 5, 2010

Going to try this out but is there a way to JUST delete certain things off my profiles? I want to keep the wall posts sent by friends but would rather delete the one liners like “XXX commented on Y’s status” or “XXX liked Z’s status” sort of thing. I am pretty sure i STILL have comments/stuff from 2007 and 2008 (not as much as in 2009 though lol)

Robin Majumdar

March 6, 2010

This looks interesting – will the script to delete wall posts work for “Notes” ?

I have thousands of notes (originally imported via an RSS feed) on a Facebook page that I want to batch delete…

Robin Majumdar

March 6, 2010

OK, seems to be working great (!!) to delete notes … but I’m getting a lot of “failed to delete minifeed story” popups ?

Anyone have ideas?

Thom

March 7, 2010

Thanks!

seb

March 9, 2010

not even close to working. why? help.

Ficholas Norneris

March 9, 2010

How do you even get to this Groups page? I go to Account Edit Friends and there’s tabs for things like Pages and whatnot but not Groups.

Are Groups the same thing as fan Pages? I’m trying to remove all Groups and all Fan Pages from my Facebook, starting with Groups.

ivan

March 10, 2010

for the script of removing from all fan pages, for the last move it says it cant find the “RemoveMefromFans”. anybody can fix this? thx!

Billy

March 12, 2010

i dont understand how this works? i’ve done everything right? i go click on the groups page on the left and then run the script but it keeps on refreshing to the same page? is it working at all?
thanks
billy

Bob

March 14, 2010

Hi I tried using the “Deleting wall posts” one. And when you said “edit” the file. What exactly do you mean? And what program do you sue to edit it. Because my computer wont pick up a program to use to edit it. I would really appreciate the help. :)

Sandra

March 17, 2010

I’m experiencing the same problem with Fan Pages. It doesn’t seem to find the “remove me from pages” link and won’t delete any of my pages. Has anybody had more luck trying?

costa miguel Vilombo

March 18, 2010

Please remove me from your system.

Thank you
Miguel

Cynthia

March 18, 2010

*** Ok lemme try to answer a couple of q’s for you guys ***

About deleting fan pages – I mentioned this earlier in my survey (if you got a chance to take it).

You either do it with an imacros script, or you use a slightly longer method but it works 100% and still saves you loads of time doing it by hand.

I gave it some thought, and I’m thinking of releasing a written copy of the instructions soon instead of a video. I can write it up in about an hour, vs. recording on video and taking ages to edit it (ok I’m slow and perfectionist :D ). That way, I’m not taking up too much of my time when I should be working on my other sites and I can help you guys out.

Sounds good? Hell yeah hope so lol. Okay, stay tuned.

@ costa miguel Vilombo – Umm…what system? If you’re talking about new comment notifications, there should be a link in the e-mails to unsubscribe.

If you can’t open the imacros sidebar using F8 when Firefox is opened, go to View > Sidebar > iOpus Imacros. That should work!

Groups and Pages are different. To see all your groups go to:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/groups.php?id=123456 (replace 123456 with your own ID #)

To see all your Pages, go to:
http://www.facebook.com/social_graph.php?node_id=123456&filter=fanned (replace 123456 with your own ID #)

To edit an imacros file, open up your imacros sidebar in Firefox, right click on an .iim file, and click on “edit macros.” Just remember go to File > Save when you’re done editing or you’ll lose your changes!

To everyone else who couldn’t get this work, I’m sorry..Facebook can be a pain, and sometimes it just doesn’t work. Could be that you ran it on a different page, or Facebook is lagging, or you need to increase the seconds between deleting posts.

If you learn more about imacros, you could just start deleting posts yourself and look into what the script looks like. That’s how I came up with the scripts.

– Cynthia Perla

Sandra

March 19, 2010

Hi cynthia- i found your other post on Can You Delete All your Fan Pages shortly after i wrote my comment here! i tried that person’s “Shirshawwolf”‘s method and it worked like a charm. had to re-play imacros a few times though in the process but got rid of all my fan pages eventually.;) thanks a mil! sandra

Robert Sycross

March 20, 2010

Re: Removing all wall post

Ms. Perla,

I found your script to be very innovative and helpful. However, after running it for a while, while remaining at the computer, Facebook stated I have no more posts, which is, in fact, a blantant lie. I’ve tried refreshing it, logging in and out multiple time, but to no avail. Nothing seems to work at all, nothing is visible anymore.

sam hewett

April 2, 2010

Ok. Firstly I am lost when it comes to this. I downloaded the imacros add on. Now what do I do? I dont get the whole play record save bit. And the F8 buton on my laptop is a volume buton, so all it does is turns down the volume.

I wouldnt have a clue where to start. I can bring up the options menu for imacros, by clicking on Tools/addons and then at the imacros add on is has options disable or uninstall.

Can you tell me what to do next in Lamens terms.. Im not that good with computers…

sam hewett

April 2, 2010

ok I think I need to know how to bring up the macros sidebar… how do I do that?

Jasmine

April 7, 2010

I dont think it works on mac pro

Jasduhmine

April 7, 2010

why wouldn’t it work on a mac pro? it’s a firefox addon. firefox works on macs right? macs even have F8 keys, it’s crazy

French Girl

April 25, 2010

I think I understand your poste, but it doesn’t work for me. I don’t unsderstand why, I tried many possibilities but it seems so difficult. It doesn’t works for french Facebook ?

bruno

April 25, 2010

not working anymore…strange

Ian W

April 26, 2010

Thanks for this tip, worked a treat :)

Gaia

May 3, 2010

Remember you must set the language to english in FB to get it work :)

Ed

May 3, 2010

this rocks! Thank you so much but i gotta little problem. i have a wall post (youtube link) on my wall which i cant delete. i cant delete it manually either. After i delete it manually its gone for a second and then it shows up on the wall again with the note: “Failure to hide minifeed story.” as a result your script is stuck there and cant go on…

I need help…? I think i need a “line” or a “command” which skips the first wall post (this stupid youtube link…) since i cant delete it manually or with the script…. can anyone help me?

Appreciate it!

Canghuixu

May 3, 2010

Hi,

This works great. I tweaked a bit to add a line to click on ‘Older posts’ at the beginning of each iteration. I also increased the wait time, it seems to cut down or eliminate the problems with “Failure to hide minifeed story”. At least when I was experimenting, it seemed like a 1 second wait led to a lot of problems with “Failure to hide minifeed story”. Maybe Facebook chokes if actions are too close together? Anyway once I spread things out a bit with the longer wait, it became pretty stable and chewed through hundreds of posts without blinking.

VERSION BUILD=6650406 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 100
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5

Canghuixu

May 4, 2010

One thing that isn’t showing up properly in the material I copied and pasted above is that the line to click on Older Posts should actually be…

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Older<SP>Posts

i.e. Older and Posts should be separated by <SP>

I hope that displays properly. I think because there was a < and a > around SP, it was being interpreted as HTML and disappearing.

fred

May 12, 2010

thanks a lot…really :)

jay

May 15, 2010

Hi is there a way to do it backwards? deleting the older posts, but say like.. leaving the latest ones up? for example. delete all of my 2 years of junk, but keeping all what i did in the last 30 days or something?

Arron

May 19, 2010

You are great! I was looking for app’s to speed up my life online! You’re my new best friend! Thanks Cynthia, Arron

lee

May 20, 2010

I used your script to delete my wall yesterday and was amazed when it plowed through 4-5 years of wall posts. Unfortunately, when I logged in today, it appears about half of them returned. Any advice?

tom

May 22, 2010

Hello

How can i remove my all friends wall post which sent by mistake from me using Facebook App

Thanks

Iliana

May 27, 2010

I love it! The only problem I see is that I have to keep hitting the play button for it to restart since I have a lot of old posts. Anyway to change that?

Iliana

May 27, 2010

I guess I got overly excited. It’s really not working very well. It’s not deleting everything. As I see the imacros doing it’s job, I keep watching it delete the same posts over and over again. But yet, it’s really not deleting them at all. Once it stops, I refresh my fb and the posts are there. :(

lore

May 27, 2010

can you also use it to delete a facebookgroup you didnt created???

Jong

May 31, 2010

Same here with lliana, it keeps trying to delete the first post again and again, but not delete anything actually. I’m using Chrome with iMacros, maybe that’s the problem?

Jong

May 31, 2010

just adding to get replies to my email.

Agung

June 4, 2010

problem for The Imacros Script (Delete All Facebook Wall Posts):

Loops is working but I still need to click “Older Posts” manually every couples walls deleted.

Iliana

June 7, 2010

Has anyone figured out why it’s not deleting the wall posts?

Cindie

June 10, 2010

Hi Cynthia and bloggers….Same here with Jong and lliana, it keeps trying to delete the first post again and again and again; however, nothing being deleted. I’m using FireFox with iMacros…..please help! Thanks!

Mickey

June 10, 2010

I was able to run the original script from your page and delete all recent posts (the past few months). But then when it got to the “older posts” I keep getting an error message that says “this status update is identical to the previous one” and that prevents the script from continuing to run. These are wall posts from about 2yrs ago. Advice?

Agung

June 11, 2010

I found the problem with “older posts” issue to delete Walls posts
please add the scripts below:

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2

its work successfully

Max Kay

June 13, 2010

Would it be possible for you to help me one on one over screensharing or something? it is urgent that i get this problem with the groups solved. I tried making a new account but that was a failure. If possible, please feel free to msg me. or give me more instructions on how to solve the problem. thank you

Brent

June 16, 2010

The script is also not deleting anything for me. I then realized IE was blocking scripts. I allowed blocked content but every time I close IE, re open, call up facebook and run script I get the same IE warning. Doesn’t seem to want to listen to me to allow the blocked content.

Rob Dirty-Dj Maynard

June 17, 2010

I am so pleased to find your blog /site and all the useful proactive topics, Thank you Cynthia.
So need more more useful stuff like this… rather than nonsense spam attacks.
Grrrrrrrrr… ~d(-_-)b~

johnsonwea

June 17, 2010

URL GOTO=http://www.facebook.com/johnsonwea#
VERSION BUILD=6650406 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 100
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2
REFRESH

This should help

Star

June 20, 2010

Getting a lot of the “Failed to hide mini feed story” after only deleting two post.
How do I fix this?

Sarah

June 21, 2010

This is brilliant and I thank you, but it’s not working for me. None of my wall posts will be deleted and instead it gives me a “Failed to hide minifeed story” error. Is there ANY WAY to fix this? I see that wall posts are not being deleted for a few others on here. Thanks!

Star

June 22, 2010

Btw will there ever be a version for Chrome?

Mario

June 27, 2010

Thank you!

johnsonwea

July 1, 2010

This Should Help

VERSION BUILD=6650406 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 25
SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
REFRESH

eric

July 3, 2010

is there a script so that you can delete all posts and comments you made on a specific person’s page?

eric

July 3, 2010

including photo comments.

nayla

July 7, 2010

how to update status facebook continoussly every 1 minutes by using iMacros …??
please send to my email nayla.ningrum@gmail.com
thnxz a lot……….

Royce Edwards

July 8, 2010

I’ve noticed that none of the scripts included John’s July 1st posting expand the “Older Posts” for me. If I add a space between “Older” and “Posts” I receive a syntax error on the line. Am I doing something wrong or did facebook change (yet again)?

Thanks!

Mark

July 9, 2010

Hi,

The script I used removed all of my pages but not my groups :(

What is the code to remove pages. I know it’s different as leaving a group it is “Leave Group” and on pages it is “Unlike”.

Thanks!

Jimmy

July 10, 2010

Hey. My name is Jimmy and I am from Greece. What you made is just wonderful but i do something wrong. Could you tell me where exactly I must be in facebook before running the script.?
Thanks in advance.

Courtney

July 10, 2010

help! i downloaded the imacro on firefox on my mac and now its on the first page and i have no idea where to click. it says “iMacros for Firefox – Installation completed…” and the page has tutorials and stuff to help people get started. I’m trying to delete everything on my facebook wall and i cant find anything that says play stop etc.
please help
thank you!

eric

July 11, 2010

anyone..?

Emmanuel.akinte

July 13, 2010

it doesnt wotk urghhhhhhh

thankful User

July 15, 2010

Thank you so much for helping me delete my wall…. ah, it feels like I have a whole new profile – Gros merci !

Me Here

July 21, 2010

Worked great for me – it got about 2 months back (and the top of my wall said User Has No Recent Posts) and started screwing up – page actually went blank – so I went back in and changed the line as suggested by Canghuixu to include the tag… now it’s going great again. To Illiana – if you didn’t already see it – use the Play Loop feature at the bottom.

AJ Gatz

July 21, 2010

I tried this macro on one of my Facebook groups, and it worked just fine although it started deleting from the top (newest to oldest).

I want it to start deleting from the oldest to newest. Will TAG POS=R-x work for this? I can’t try it right now because Facebook is under maintenance, but I will try and follow up if it does end up working for me.

AJ Gatz

July 21, 2010

Okay. Facebook came back on. I tried POS=R-1, and it did go to the bottom and delete the last post on the page; however, it stopped after the first instance.

I’m trying to get it to continue from bottom to top for X amount of posts.

Any suggestions?

AJ Gatz

July 21, 2010

I worked it out. Cheers!

laura

July 26, 2010

what if you don’t have firefox?

how do you download it for internet exporer?

spassmore

July 29, 2010

So how did you work it out from the bottom to the top?

Tess

August 1, 2010

I used the following to delete the game posts on my facebook wall but leave the real ones. I used wildcards in the link under the “Remove” button and used “story_type” to indicate which posts to remove.

TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=HREF:http://www.facebook.com/ajax/minifeed/remove_confirm.php?story_id=div_story_*&profile_id=713409256&story_key=*&story_type=63*
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=2

This worked for me to remove all Zoo posts however no guarantees and I’d suggest trying small scale to not loose your real ones.

AJ Gatz

August 1, 2010

spassmore:

Instead of using my group wall (which displays newest to oldest), I used the discussions tab for postings because it displays from oldest to newest.

Doing it this way, I didn’t have to play with the “POS=R-1″ command anymore. =)

Andy

August 9, 2010

Im not sure if it was me, the macros for deleting wall (stories) posts didnt seem to work. I’m not a programmer, so I’ve got no idea what your codes about, but…

I’ve taken johnsonwea’s posting from June 17, 2010 + July 1, 2010 – and modified the line (into a comment) where I got an error from “SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO”

This appeared to have done the trick. I kept the URL line so that it goes to your profile/wall page – please amend that accordingly to your own page.
Im running in Internet Explorer.
Hope this helps and Many Thanks

URL GOTO=http://www.facebook.com/USERNAME#
VERSION BUILD=6650406 RECORDER=FX
TAB T=1
SET !ERRORIGNORE YES
SET !TIMEOUT 25
‘ SET !DIALOGMANAGER NO
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:OlderPosts
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Older
Posts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Older
Posts
WAIT SECONDS=2
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Remove
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:delete_story&&VALUE:Delete
WAIT SECONDS=5
REFRESH

***
Cynthia’s comment: OlderPosts should be changed to Older< SP >Posts (no spaces in between). For some reason, my blog strips the sp part out.

ubah

August 18, 2010

I didnt understand this, please help me. i downloaded the micro , but its confusing.

rae anne

August 25, 2010

HELP! I want to delete some messages, test results, etc from my facebook account.

unad

August 30, 2010

Hi, thanks for the script. I’m running it now but can’t tell if it is working as the Facebook groups page is simply staying still and nothing is happening although the macro script is on it’s 40th run…. should I be able to see the groups being removed?
Many thanks