Google Messages Archiver

google_messages_archiver.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Google Messages Archiver
// @namespace   Whatever
// @match       https://messages.google.com/web/*
// @grant       GM_log
// @author      csm10495
// @description Run doIt() in the console to archive all conversations after the most recent 5.
// @version     0.1.0
// ==/UserScript==

// I had a lot of conversations that I wanted to archive.. this script used via the console/tampermonkey does that for me as a one-off.
// This script is released via the MIT License - 2023. For a copy of it see https://opensource.org/license/mit/

function getMatches() {
    var matches = document.querySelector("mws-conversations-list").querySelectorAll('.mat-mdc-button-touch-target');
    return matches
}

function findAndClickArchive() {
    let textItems = document.querySelectorAll('.mat-mdc-menu-item-text');
    for (let i = 0; i < textItems.length; i++) {
        if (textItems[i].textContent == "Archive") {
            textItems[i].click();
            GM_log("found!");
            break;
        }
        else {
            GM_log(textItems[i].textContent);
        }
    }

    GM_log("not found!");
}


function clickArchiveOnMatch(match) {
    match.click();
    setTimeout(function () {
        findAndClickArchive();
    }, 100);
}

function doIt() {
    let matches = getMatches();
    if (matches.length < 6) {
        return;
    }

    clickArchiveOnMatch(matches[5]);
    setTimeout(doIt, 200);
}

unsafeWindow.getMatches = getMatches;
unsafeWindow.clickArchiveOnMatch = clickArchiveOnMatch;
unsafeWindow.doIt = doIt;