How to delete all history of specific website in google chrome - google-chrome

Question

In google chrome in history section, I want to delete all the histories related to a specific website for example: facebook.com, I can search facebook.com and then select all checkboxes and delete but its a time-consuming work.
Is there any easy way to clear the history of specific websites?
even by writing code or script?

Answer 1

open the history manager, search for facebook.com... do not click all the checkboxes individually. Click the first box, scroll to the bottom of the page and hold shift while clicking the last box, it will select all of them at once.
protip: if you want to visit a website without leaving a history entry, go into incognito mode (control-shift-p).
or, Control-A keyboard shortcut will select all of the checkboxes as well! https://techdows.com/2018/02/chrome-history-page-ctrl-a-now-selects-all-history-items.html#:~:text=Chrome%20history%20Page%3A%20Ctrl%2BA%20now%20selects%20all%20items&text=Now%20the%20addition%20of%20Ctrl,or%20unselect%20multiple%20history%20items.&text=The%20thing%20is%2C%20only%20150,page%20has%20more%20history%20items.

Answer 2

You can use some scripting in the console to click checkboxes for entries with hrefs containing a substring.
This answer uses this other SO answer on a querySelectorAll that works for things inside open shadow DOMs:
function $$$(selector, rootNode=document.body) {
const arr = []
const traverser = node => {
// 1. decline all nodes that are not elements
if(node.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
return
}
// 2. add the node to the array, if it matches the selector
if(node.matches(selector)) {
arr.push(node)
}
// 3. loop through the children
const children = node.children
if (children.length) {
for(const child of children) {
traverser(child)
}
}
// 4. check for shadow DOM, and loop through it's children
const shadowRoot = node.shadowRoot
if (shadowRoot) {
const shadowChildren = shadowRoot.children
for(const shadowChild of shadowChildren) {
traverser(shadowChild)
}
}
}
traverser(rootNode)
return arr
}
arr = $$$('[href*="example.com"]');
// this code will need to be updated if the source code for the chrome history browser changes.
arr.map(e => e.closest("#item-info")
.previousElementSibling
.previousElementSibling
).forEach(e=>e.click());
This will click all the matching entries on the current page, and then you can just click the button to delete the checked entries.