clean-news.js

// Remove articles with certain stop words, on a website.
//
// How? This script can be pasted into the developer console of a browser. 
// When you run it (normally just by hitting ENTER) it blurs the according articles.
//
// What else? You can add or remove stop words that are used to find the articles
// with the according words.

const stopWords = ['corona', 'covid', 'pandemie', 'trump', 'biden'];

const cleanArticles = () => {
  const articles = document.querySelectorAll('article');
  const toRemove = new Set(); 
  articles.forEach(a =>  {
    stopWords.map(word => {
      if (a.textContent.toLowerCase().includes(word)) {
        toRemove.add(a);
      }
    });  
  }); 
  toRemove.forEach(a => a.style.opacity = .1); // make them less opaque
  //toRemove.forEach(a => a.remove); // remove them
  console.log(`cleaned ${toRemove.size} articles`);
};

cleanArticles();