Good script... tried it, then realized it's actually not bad to delete thousands of photos anymore via the UI... maybe they've pushed some UI updates to improve this UX without actual "delete all"?

1. Click the checkmark on the first image
2. Hold shift
3. Scroll down about 500 or so pics (not too much though or this won't work)
4. Let the UI finish loading for a couple seconds
5. Still holding shift, notice on hover that checkmarks shade-in for all photos between 1 and wherever you're at in the scroll
6. Click on a photo, hold shift again and scroll down some more click, repeat... (if you don't see it highlight more, just go back up and click what you missed... the checkmarks don't go away)
7. Hit delete

I just deleted 23,000 photos in about 3 minutes. Might be worth a try 😄

Similar to maxImageCount, please have a variable to delete photos older/earlier than specified date. Thanks!

Maybe sleep some time when no checkboxes have been found so that the page can properly load:

    do {
        checkboxes = document.querySelectorAll(ELEMENT_SELECTORS['checkboxClass']);
		if (checkboxes.length <= 0)
			Sleep(2000); 
    } while (checkboxes.length <= 0 && attemptCount++ < MAX_RETRIES);

Can we add instructions on how to restart the tool? If there is a slowdown to loading the next set of photos, the tool logs that is has exited.

But how can I restart manually other than doing a full reload and pasting the script?

Thanks!

Thank you for building this.
As I would like to liberate space on my Google account, I'd like only to delete photos and videos that are not part of a shared album.
Because if I delete all the photos, they will also be deleted from the shared album.

Thank you for this tool!
I am here to suggest an improvement.

The current iteration with timers between deletion cycles is somewhat clunky, and does not take machine performance and network latency into account.

Recommended change is to wait until the "Moving X images" prompt disappears from the DOM before attempting the next deletion cycle.

Hey bro thanks for the awesome script.

I wrote a quick one to delete the folders/albums as well (maybe you can add it as a feature).

It probably needs some tweaking to make sure it runs smoothly on slower computers.

Here is the code:

var intervalId = window.setInterval(function () {
deleteAlbum()
}, 6000);

var albums = 0;
var albumNumber = document.getElementsByClassName('U26fgb JRtysb WzwrXb YI2CVc G6iPcb').length;

function deleteAlbum() {
// Get our first album and click it
setTimeout(function () {
document.getElementsByClassName('U26fgb JRtysb WzwrXb YI2CVc G6iPcb')[2].click();
}, 500);

setTimeout(function () {
    document.getElementsByClassName('z80M1 o7Osof')[6].dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mousedown", {
        bubbles: true,
        cancelable: true,
        view: window
    }));
}, 1500);


// Get our delete button and click it
setTimeout(function () {
    document
        .getElementsByClassName('z80M1 o7Osof')[6].dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent("mouseup", {
        bubbles: true,
        cancelable: true,
        view: window
    }));
}, 2500);


// Confirm deletion
setTimeout(function () {
    document
        .getElementsByClassName('VfPpkd-LgbsSe VfPpkd-LgbsSe-OWXEXe-k8QpJ nCP5yc AjY5Oe kHssdc HvOprf')[0].click();

}, 4000);

// Confirm deletion
setTimeout(function () {
    currentAlbums = document.getElementsByClassName('U26fgb JRtysb WzwrXb YI2CVc G6iPcb').length;
    console.log("Current album number: " + currentAlbums);
    console.log("Old album number: " + albumNumber)
    if (currentAlbums < albumNumber) {
        albums++;
        console.log(albums + " deleted.");
    } else {
        console.log("Error deleting album. Aborting")
        clearInterval(intervalId)
    }
}, 5500);

}

Hi @nanpuhaha ,

The script throws error and stopped working when executed under Firefox.

Great script! I'm seeing that after it runs the select on all of the photos, you get a prompt in the corner asking you to delete. If you don't manually click on delete it then just unselecting everything after a few seconds and does the same again in a cycle. If it was possible for it to select and click the button too so the process could be fully automated and left to run by itself

hi!

first of all THANKS for this, it was very helpful and I deleted all my pictures there. However they still remain in the "For you" section and in "view unsaved or disssmised creations" section (link on the very bottom of the "For you" section page.

I am sure they do this for purpose.

Would it be possible to have deletion robots for those two parts. By that the cleaning would be complete.

Hi, this script did not helped for me. Chrome version 80.0.3987.163 , no photo was deleted. Why ??
I attached one file - do you see a bug ? Where is the problem ?

The script appears to work, but upon refresh all the photos repopulate!

It'd be cool if you could set the script to only delete a certain amount of photos instead of all

Delete button does not work if you are using google photo's in another language.
This is because the button is not titled "Delete" in other languages, but "Verwijderen" in dutch for example.

Can be fixed by using a direct path to the button itself, rather then searching for a title.

Hi,

Thanks for the excellent tool. After I remove all photos using the script, some photos remain in the "For you" section. I can't easily remove them by manual.

Is it possible to create a new script to remove all photos in this section? (Is it necessary to do that or just wait for an update from Google?)

Hi! Just wanted to let the author and others know about an extension I made that lets you bulk delete all google photos automatically without needing to paste in any code! Here's the link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/delete-all-google-photos/bebhhjmapjadpdkkhbkpnpbjhkhndofl?hl=en

Hi- First let me say thank you for building a tool that solves a big problem for me. I understand that providing this tool can be a bit or a lot of work for you. I used the tool a few days ago and now today when I try it doesn't click the "Remove from Google Account, Google Drive, synced devices and places where it's shared?" button and when the script is running the title of the box that is display sayd "unused". I think this is property span.Vfpkd-vQzf8d and maybe a new one since it seems I had shared this photo.

If you're having trouble making the script work (like checking & unchecking boxes but not deleting) you should access Google Photos from the following URL:

https://photos.google.com/?hl=en

The "?hl=en" will make sure you get into Google Photos in English and the script will work (tested on Edge in Spanish).
No need to swtich the browser language.

let t = 0
while (true) {
  let checkboxes = [...document.querySelectorAll('.ckGgle')].filter((x) => x.ariaChecked == 'false')
if (checkboxes.length > 0) {
    t = 0
  checkboxes.forEach((x) => x.click());
  document.getElementsByClassName("yDSiEe uGCjIb zcLWac eejsDc TWmIyd")[0].scrollBy(0, window.outerHeight);
} else {
    t++;
    if (t > 30) break
}
    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
}

enjoy

Says "all photos deleted" ...but not actually true.

Does it max out at 65k ?

Sorry to make an issue to do this, but not sure another way to get in touch. Trying to leave Google Photos is such a pain and your solution here helps automate a mundane task wonderfully. Thank you for giving me a way to exit Google Photos and all the privacy ramifications of keeping entire libraries on their servers. Take Care!

Hi,
I'm wondering if you could help me by sharing a similar script but for restoring photos in the bin?

Best
Adam

I added the code in a snipet.
I see the photos get selected, then they get unselected. They get selected again, etc.

Holy crap dude. Thank you so much for this. I was really hating manually deleting my thousands of photos manually, You're a lifesaver! Thank you so much!!!

I increased the timeouts by a factor of 2X. I see the photos selected, but I don't see the delete actions occur.

Rather it seems to repeatedly: Select the same images, clear upon deleation, and select those images again.

I checked and my language was set to US English. I set to English and the behavior was the same.

Maybe a side effect of using Chromium vs. Chrome?

Version 89.0.4389.82 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)

Thank you for this wonderful tool. For whatever reason, the script does not seem to click the confirmation button. I looked at the issue opened by MickPBduece but was not able to see a solution in his notes.

Hi,
Great tool!
Too bad we need it... Google should really implement a proper delete tool in the app it self...

But... the tool takes forever if you have many pictures... 7 seconds per round means ~7000 pictures per hour (15 pic/round average).

It would be really great if the tool could select perhaps 500 pcs per cycle...

/th

replace this:
deleteButton: 'button[title="Delete"]',

with your language. hover on delete button to see the translation. it doesn't work if your account isn't in English language

if it doesn't click confirmation button, there's pull requests for that

FTR using latest Chrome on MacOS Mojave.

Hi mrishab,

This is not an issue, but hereby I would like to ask you to do me a favor a bit.
I accidentally created 3000 albums with a Rclone sync script and in the current situation, Google doesn't allow batch delete albums via APIs. I was thinking maybe your JS script can be adapted to remove albums as well. Thanks.

I have 30K to delete. It runs for 10 minutes and says it's done.

I get the following message repeatedly:
[INFO] Deleting 29 images debugger eval code:36:13
[INFO] Deleting 29 images debugger eval code:36:13
[INFO] Deleting 29 images debugger eval code:36:13

and the script actually never deletes any images. It marks images, but does not delete them.

Any help?

PS: I have tried it on both OSX and win10, firefox and chrome (latest versions). Same results. I need to delete approximately 200,000 images...

I have like 40k photos, it went through about 200 (in selection bulks of about 25) then stopped and said there are no more photos to delete.

FYI:

When I first ran the script it would delete 35 photos at once.
I then zoomed out (Command + Minus) which resulted in over 800 images being deleted at once.

That might be of interest for the guide.

Thank you for providing your script.

This line doesn't appear to find the confirmation anymore, perhaps the text has changed? This means that the photos are checked, the trash icon is clicked, but then the photos are never moved to the trash. Sadly I don't know enough JS to adjust to the new value.

Seriously.