Unfollow all on X.

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// Unfollow all on x.com (working as of 10/2025). Run in dev console on /following page. May break / need to run a few times, janky.

(async function unfollowAll({
  clickDelay = 700,      // ms between individual clicks
  scrollDelay = 1200,    // ms to wait after scrolling to load items
  max = 0                // 0 = unlimited, set >0 to stop after that many unfollows
} = {}) {
  const sleep = ms => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms));

  // selector targets buttons that look like the "Following" buttons in the new HTML
  const selector = 'button[data-testid$="-unfollow"], button[aria-label^="Following"]';

  // return only visible buttons that we haven't already marked/clicked
  function getVisibleButtons() {
    return Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(selector))
      .filter(b => b.offsetParent !== null && !b.dataset.__unfollow_script_clicked);
  }

  // if an "Are you sure?" confirmation pops up, try to click an Unfollow/Confirm button
  function clickConfirmDialog() {
    // look for common labels in buttons inside dialogs
    const candidates = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('div[role="dialog"] button, button'));
    const confirm = candidates.find(btn => /\bunfollow\b/i.test(btn.textContent));
    if (confirm) {
      try { confirm.click(); return true; } catch(e) {}
    }
    return false;
  }

  let clicked = 0;
  let consecutiveScrollsWithoutNew = 0;
  const MAX_SCROLL_ATTEMPTS = 6; // how many scroll attempts when no new buttons appear

  console.log('Unfollow script started (clickDelay=%sms, scrollDelay=%sms, max=%s)', clickDelay, scrollDelay, max);

  while (true) {
    let buttons = getVisibleButtons();

    if (buttons.length === 0) {
      // no visible buttons — try to load more by scrolling
      window.scrollBy(0, window.innerHeight);
      await sleep(scrollDelay);

      const buttonsAfter = getVisibleButtons();
      if (buttonsAfter.length === 0) {
        consecutiveScrollsWithoutNew++;
      } else {
        consecutiveScrollsWithoutNew = 0;
      }

      // if we've tried scrolling several times and still nothing, assume we're done
      if (consecutiveScrollsWithoutNew >= MAX_SCROLL_ATTEMPTS) {
        console.log('No more unfollow buttons found after scrolling. Exiting.');
        break;
      }
      continue;
    }

    // click through the visible buttons (one-by-one)
    for (const btn of buttons) {
      // mark so we don't re-click it if DOM doesn't change immediately
      btn.dataset.__unfollow_script_clicked = '1';
      try {
        btn.click();
        clicked++;
        // if a confirmation appears, try to accept it
        await sleep(250);
        clickConfirmDialog();
      } catch (err) {
        console.warn('click failed', err);
      }

      console.log('Clicked unfollow #' + clicked, btn);
      // obey max
      if (max > 0 && clicked >= max) {
        console.log('Reached max limit (' + max + '). Stopping.');
        return;
      }
      await sleep(clickDelay);
    }
  }

  console.log('Finished. Total unfollow clicks: ' + clicked);
})();