Remove site list entries from Dark Reader extension

After using Dark Reader for a few months, my site list has been growing and this affects my browsing experience a lot.

For example:

• Everytime I run a ASP.NET app, IIS will assign it a random port (e.g. localhost:55167) and every localhost website will share Dark Reader configuration.
• Recently, when I toggle any localhost sites, they will not change from dark to light or reverse. I must toggle the option Invert list only/Not invert list to deal with this behavior in the mean time. I suspect that there are many localhost sites with different port in the site list but I only toggle the localhost site with its current port number. There are still many other localhost sites in the site list.

I tried to dig through Dark Reader code for filtering/deleting my site list but the codebase is huge for me. There are many design decisions in there but there is no comment/documentation explain how things work so I gave up on the codebase.

I can remove the site list manually from the Dark Reader popup but my number of sites in there has been growing to 3 digits. I cannot delete all of them manually.

Because of that, I decide to create a Python script to automate the task for me.

How to use the script

Install dependencies

pip install -r ./requirements.txt

Run the script

Check the content of the script before runnning. I not responsible for any works you may lost while you are using the script.

python main.py

Move the cursor to the starting site in Dark Reader popup

• Open Dark Reader by click on the extension icon
• Open Site List
• Scroll to the first site in the list
• Place the cursor on the first site

Star the automation

• Press F9 to start or pause
• Press ESC to end the program

Start the automating process with F9 and leave the computer there until there is no site entry left then press ESC to end the program.