https://github.com/iwstkhr/kindle-highlight-deleter

Ad hoc JavaScript to delete Kindle highlights from Kindle Cloud Reader
https://github.com/iwstkhr/kindle-highlight-deleter

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Ad hoc JavaScript to delete Kindle highlights from Kindle Cloud Reader

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/iwstkhr/kindle-highlight-deleter
• Owner: iwstkhr
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-07-13T20:28:48.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-31T15:19:20.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-25T16:23:38.578Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: javascript, kindle-highlights
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• Size: 247 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Kindle highlight deleter

Ad hoc JavaScript to delete Kindle highlights from Kindle "Your Notes and Highlights".

## Usage

Open "Your Notes and Highlights"


https://read.amazon.com/notebook

Note that you should select the appropriate site corresponding to your language. (amazon.co.jp, amazon.com, etc.).

![Your Notes and Highlights](img1.png)

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Select a book in which you want to delete highlights.

![Select a book](img2.png)

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Open "Developer Tools" of your browser.


In Google Chrome, you can open it with F12.

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Paste the following JavaScript in the console tab and press ENTER.

![JavaScript code](img3.png)

```javascript

const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

(async () => {

const options = document.querySelector('#kp-notebook-annotations').querySelectorAll('div.a-row .a-spacing-base');

const triggers = Array.from(options || [])

  .map(option => option.querySelector('a.a-popover-trigger'))

  .filter(Boolean);

for (const trigger of triggers) {

  // Show a popup menu.

  trigger.click();

  await sleep(500);

  // Click a "delete highlight" item.

  let deleteHighlight = document.querySelector('a#deletehighlight');

  if (!deleteHighlight) {

    console.warn('a#deletehighlight was not found.');

    continue;

  }

  const value = deleteHighlight.attributes.getNamedItem('value').value;

  deleteHighlight.click();

  await sleep(500);

  // Submit.

  deleteHighlight = document.querySelector('span#deleteHighlight');

  if (!deleteHighlight) {

    console.warn('span#deleteHighlight was not found.');

    continue;

  }

  const submit = deleteHighlight.querySelector('input[type="submit"]');

  if (!submit) {

    console.warn('submit was not found.');

    continue;

  }

  submit.click();

  console.info(`${value} was deleted.`)

  await sleep(3000);

}

})();

```