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// // https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data/twitter_interests
// Lots of discussion and improvement of the original script in the comments
// Here's the best version that works well
// Because Twitter stops the script working after unchecking 50 interests, so you will almost certainly have to run the script multiple times
function sleep(milliseconds) {
return new Promise(function (resolve) {
return setTimeout(resolve, milliseconds);
});
};
Array.from(document
.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]'))
.filter(checkbox => checkbox.checked == true)
.slice(0, 50)
.forEach((checkbox, index, array) =>
sleep(1000).then(() => {
console.log(`${index + 1}/${array.length}: Unchecking "${checkbox.parentNode.parentNode.innerText}"`)
checkbox.click();
}));
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trap15 commented Jul 9, 2021

You can avoid the API lockout by making sure the wait is actually between each unchecking, and extending the timeout as well. With the below I could do 100 in one go, maybe a longer delay would let you go longer (or possibly it's because I've been messing with this for a bit).

Change

        sleep(1000).then(() => {

To

        sleep(5000 * index).then(() => {

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mirabilos commented Jul 9, 2021 via email

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trap15 commented Jul 9, 2021

Yes, but if you aren't doing this multiplication then every execution starts at the same time, just offset by 1000 from when the script is executed. Only with the multiplication is it delaying the same amount between each click, to simulate clicking them manually.

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mirabilos commented Jul 9, 2021 via email

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Rewrote it to divide the checkboxes into chunks to run the script in batches to prevent hitting twitter's API rate limits.

let chunks = [];
let source = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('input[type="checkbox"]:checked'));

while (source.length) {
  chunks.push(source.splice(0, 20));
}

const event = new MouseEvent('click', {

  view: window,
  bubbles: true,
  cancelable: true
});

let minutes = 10; // amount of time to wait between batches
let interval = setInterval(() => {

  if (chunks.length === 0) {

    clearInterval(interval);
    return;
  }

  chunks.splice(0, 1)[0].forEach(i => {
      i.dispatchEvent(event);
  });

}, minutes * 60 * 1000);

@ibrahimab
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People should realize that twitter does not remove the interests, and will continue to add/enable interests whilst using twitter.

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Almost funny how this excellent gist is not the first result in Google, but it is the first result in Brave Search for "twitter clear interests"

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