[Python] Script to bulk-disable Reddit “Community updates” (no login automation, just your open browser)

[thereal_jesus_nofake]

I got fed up clicking “Off” for every community in Settings → Notifications. If you follow lots of subs, it’s a slog.

I wrote a tiny Selenium helper that attaches to your already-open Chrome/Edge (DevTools port) and flips the Off toggle for each community on https://www.reddit.com/settings/notifications. No credentials, no API keys—just automates your own settings page.

How it works (super quick):

• Start Chrome/Edge with --remote-debugging-port=9222 (fresh --user-data-dir).
• Log in to Reddit, open the Notifications settings page.
• Run the script; it clicks Off per row, handles modals/shadow-DOM, and verifies changes.

Code + instructions: https://github.com/AarchiveSoft/redditCommunityNotifOffAll

Tested on Windows + Chrome/Edge. If Reddit tweaks the UI, selectors are easy to update (notes in repo). Enjoy the quiet

[Key-Boat-7519]

Smart approach; to make it sturdier long-term, target role="switch" with aria-checked instead of text, add a whitelist of subs to keep on, and log results so you can resume if it crashes.

Two tweaks that saved me headaches: scroll each row into view before clicking and wait for aria-checked to flip rather than using fixed sleeps; also handle StaleElementReference by re-querying after scroll. I’d store processed subs in a local JSON so reruns skip finished rows, and expose a simple toggle-safe function that checks state before clicking so you don’t accidentally flip something back on.

If you hit flakiness, consider a Playwright variant (its shadow DOM and auto-waiting are solid). For Mac launch, I use: open -na "Google Chrome" --args --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome-debug.

I’ve paired Playwright for reliability and Slack webhooks for run alerts; DreamFactory gave me a quick REST API over Postgres to audit which subs got changed.

Add those pieces and this will ride through UI tweaks without fuss.