{"id":1177,"date":"2023-01-02T01:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T01:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2023-01-02T01:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T01:42:22","slug":"unstarring-multiple-contacts-on-google-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/1177\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstarring multiple contacts on Google Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in the last few years, <strong>all<\/strong> of my Google Contacts contacts became \u201cstarred,\u201d rendering the feature useless and annoying me constantly. I finally fixed the problem today.<\/p>\n<p>The interface has no obvious method to bulk un-star contacts, and I didn&#8217;t find anyone else talking about having this problem. I wasn&#8217;t going to manually click to un-star several thousand contacts, especially when it takes a few seconds for the page to refresh upon un-starring, so I wrote a really simple script that can be pasted into the javascript console. I just had to let it run for half the day, but the problem is solved.<\/p>\n<p><code>setInterval(function(){document.querySelectorAll(\"*[aria-label='Remove star']\")[0].click()}, 5000)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Running this will (eventually) un-star all the contacts on your screen, at least until Google changes their interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time in the last few years, all of my Google Contacts contacts became \u201cstarred,\u201d rendering the feature useless and annoying me constantly. I finally fixed the problem today. The interface has no obvious method to bulk un-star contacts, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/02\/1177\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}