How to unfollow everyone on Quora, you ask ?

30 Mar 2016

Use this script I wrote while trying to clean up the mess my quora timeline had become.

function unfollow(){
	var tag = $('a[action_click="UserUnfollow"]')[0];
	console.log(tag);
	if(typeof tag !== 'undefined') {
	      tag.click();
	} else {
	      clearInterval(counter);
	}
}

var counter = setInterval(unfollow, 2000);

How to use the script ?

1. Goto the page which shows the list of people you’re following. Something like : https://www.quora.com/profile/your-username/following
2. Keep scrolling down, so that the complete list of people you follow is visible on the page.
3. Right Click -> Inspect.
4. Open Console in the inspect panel.
5. Paste the script, wait, start your life over, fresh.

How does the script work ?

Every Un-Follow button on the page looks something like this :

<a class="Button TwoStateButton User pressed main_button user_follow_button" 
	href="#" 
	action_target="XXX" 
	action_click="UserUnfollow" 
	id="__w2_yA4BoJq_button">
	<span id="__w2_yA4BoJq_text">Unfollow</span>
	<span class="count" id="__w2_yA4BoJq_count">1.4k</span>
</a>

What’s common among all the <a> tags is that the action_click attribute is set to UserUnfollow. So, the script uses jQuery to select the first anchor tag with this attribute and then simply calls the click method on the tag, imitating a user clicking that unfollow button.

I did not want to bombard quora with super quick requests, lest they block me(?), so this process is repeated every 2000ms.

PS : Releasing under the MIT License, so use it at your own risk ;)

PPS : Happy Quoraing