Download script: http://www.devoresoftware.com/gm/grks/grkillstars.user.js. Also available on the userscripts.org site at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/89903.
Summary
A request was posted on Ask MetaFilter for a script to clear starred items in Google Reader. I wrote the Greasemonkey script Google Reader Kill Stars to address the problem. When activated, the script clears all stars in Google Reader for items loaded in the main items pane by simulating mouse click on each starred entry. After Google Reader is loaded, from the browser menu choose Tools/Greasemonkey/User Script Commands/Remove Stars in Google Reader to clear all those pesky stars from loaded items.
Hi, very good work.
I would like to remove stars from items with a given tag, would it be easy to adapt the script to do so?
Thanks
Maybe, I’ll look at what it would take when I work on the other script, maybe tonight or tomorrow.
I think you basically want a rework of the existing Google Reader Make Stars script, following the logic in the Google Reader Kill Stars script. I don’t think it should be too hard of changes, since the basic logic of everything you need to do is covered in the two scripts.
I’ll take a look at what’s necessary after the weekend of March 17-18th, and upload a third script, if you still need help.
Thank you for your feedback.
Basically I used to star some posts of some blogs.
Then I decided to tag some good blogs with a label (eg “favorites”)
What I would like to do now is to unstar all of the posts of the blogs having the “favorites” tag.
Thnak you again
OK, I seem to have a working script. I’ll post it in a few.
Thank you again, I’ll test it asap
Wow, this has been a huge help, thanks a lot, really!!
I wonder if something similar can be done to both shared and unshared notes. Since the change of design in google reader I stopped using notes. Even thou I can access them via http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/created I’m ready to get rid of them but google has disabled all options to do it.
Thanks!
Wow, this has been a huge help, thanks a lot, really!!
I wonder if something similar could be done to both shared and unshared notes. Since the change of design in google reader I stopped using notes. Even thou I can access them via http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/created I’m ready to get rid of them but google has disabled all options to do it.
Thanks!
Possibly, but I don’t have any notes in Google Reader here, and I don’t see any way to add them. So, I don’t have any knowledge of how notes are currently managed or methods of manipulating them. Without that ability, I doubt I could write a script which interacts with them. Basically a script isn’t going to do what you can’t do already, it’s just going to do it automatically and (possibly) much faster.
Thanks for your reply!
I’ve been using ‘Gruml’ for Mac as desktop client for a while. Is the only one I know that handles notes. Even after the re-design, can access notes, even create text notes as well as delete them, so I believe the functionality is still there, but hidden. Unfortunately only deletes one entry at the time and feels slow, as you have to wait a few seconds and refresh to see the results. Lets see how long it takes me haha!
Thanks!
Any idea how I could get this working in Google Chrome? I can’t seem to find anywhere to “activate” the script. Such as the “user script commands” in Firefox. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Just change the line:
GM_registerMenuCommand(“Remove stars in Google Reader”, main, “”, “”, “R”);
to a simple
main();
should automatically call the script whenever the page is loaded.