How to bulk delete read/unread GitHub notifications?

[ajm19826]

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Hi GitHub, currently I have over 1,000+ notifications, and I want to know a way that I can bulk delete these notifications, instead of selecting 25 at a time. Is there any way I can do this efficiently?

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[Akkii88]

Method 1: Keyboard Shortcuts (Fastest in Browser)

1. Go to your Notifications inbox.
2. Press Shift + i to select all notifications on the current page.
3. Press e to mark them as done (archive them).
   The next set will automatically load. Repeating this selection and archive cycle is significantly faster than manual clicking.

Method 2: GitHub CLI (Most Efficient for Bulk)

If you have the GitHub CLI installed, you can mark all notifications as read instantly with this command:

gh api --method PUT /notifications -f last_read_at=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)

To archive every notification (Mark as Done), you can run this loop:

gh api notifications --paginate | jq -r '.[].id' | xargs -I {} gh api --method PATCH /notifications/threads/{}

[ajm19826]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[mihaimaruseac]

Once you select the checkbox for 25 notifications and wait a little bit, there's a link to select all of them:

After that, you can mark everything as read from the UI.