{"slug": "show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui", "title": "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI", "summary": "A developer released a script that deletes all Claude.ai conversations at once by calling the internal API, bypassing the web UI's limitation of only selecting visible chats. Users must paste the script into the browser console on the recents page and keep the tab open for several minutes while deletions process. The tool addresses the lack of a bulk delete option in Anthropic's chat interface.", "body_md": "Delete **all** your claude.ai conversations at once, i created it because the \"Select all\" button on `/recents`\n\nonly covers the rows rendered on screen. This script calls the internal API instead, so it gets everything.\n\n- Open\n[https://claude.ai/recents](https://claude.ai/recents)and press`F12`\n\n→**Console** - Paste the contents of\n, hit Enter`delete-all.js`\n\n- Confirm the dialog (one per organization)\n⚠️ Be patient: conversations disappear from the UI**slowly, over several minutes**; that's normal⚠️ Keep the claude.ai tab open until the console shows`Finished`\n\n; closing, refreshing, or navigating away from the page can stop the deletion process.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/MatteoLeonesi/bulk-delete-claude-chat", "published_at": "2026-06-12 15:08:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 15:41:32.083487+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Claude", "claude.ai"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-script-to-bulk-delete-claude-chats-from-the-web-ui.jsonld"}}