Add ability to delete highlights

[deiwin]

Some background:

At the moment I have more than 1k highlights in Kindle that I've already imported to Anki (the reason I highlighted the words), but they are still stored by Amazon as well, which makes looking for relevant highlights difficult.

The page these highlights are scraped from has a delete button, clicking it shouldn't be too difficult.

Here's a sample HTML for the delete button:

<form action="/user_annotation_relation/delete_highlight" class="deleteHighlightForm" method="post">
  <div style="margin:0;padding:0">
    <input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="[...]">
  </div>
  <input id="asin" name="asin" type="hidden" value="B002VHI8J0">
  <input id="annotation_id" name="annotation_id" type="hidden" value="[...]">
  <span class="deleteHighlight">
    <button class="textSubmit" name="delete" type="submit">
      [...] Delete this highlight [...]
    </button>
  </span>
  <span class="deleteHighlightUndo hidden">
    <button class="textSubmit" name="undo" type="submit">
      [...] Undo [...]
    </button>
  </span>
</form>

It looks like a simple POST request would do as well. No need to click the actual button. The scraper just has to record the authenticity_token, which seems to be the same for all highlights.

[parroty]

Thanks for the comment, and sorry I didn't notice this issue item. I'll check your suggestion.
However, [Location] column for each highlight has link to kindle app, and it opens the location in the app which can update/delete the highlights. It does not work?

[deiwin]

It might do, but I'd like to do it programmatically. I.e. my ruby script fetches, backs up and then deletes the highlights.