Delete all Google Photos with Selenium, Firefox, Python

delete-google-photos.py

"""
1. create a separate Firefox profile
2. start that profile and log into the Google Account of choice
3. get the profile's path from `about:profiles`
4. set `profile_url` to the profile's path
5. run script
"""
from time import sleep

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException, WebDriverException
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait

profile_url = "/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/vhdacxyj.scraper"
photos_url = "https://photos.google.com"
wait_timeout = 10

checkbox_selector = "div.ckGgle"
delete_button_selector = 'button[title="Delete"]'
confirmation_button_selector = ".XfpsVe > button:nth-child(2)"

options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.headless = False
fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(profile_url)
wd = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp, options=options)
wd.maximize_window()
wd.get(photos_url)


def waitfor_and_find_elements(wd, selector, wait_timeout):
    return WebDriverWait(wd, wait_timeout).until(
        EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, selector))
    )


def waitfor_and_find_element(wd, selector, wait_timeout):
    WebDriverWait(wd, wait_timeout).until(
        EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, selector))
    )


def select_items():
    while True:
        try:
            waitfor_and_find_elements(wd, checkbox_selector, wait_timeout)
        except TimeoutException:
            wd.get(photos_url)
            sleep(5)
            continue
        break

    checkboxes = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector(checkbox_selector)
    for cb in checkboxes:
        try:
            cb.click()
        except WebDriverException:
            continue


def reload():
    """
    need to reload because dom changes
    sleep to let the browser do its things
    """
    sleep(3)
    wd.get(photos_url)
    sleep(5)


try:
    while True:
        select_items()

        waitfor_and_find_element(wd, delete_button_selector, wait_timeout)
        delete_button = wd.find_element_by_css_selector(delete_button_selector)
        delete_button.click()

        waitfor_and_find_element(wd, confirmation_button_selector, wait_timeout)
        confirmation_button = wd.find_element_by_css_selector(
            confirmation_button_selector
        )
        confirmation_button.click()

        reload()
finally:
    wd.quit()