profile-cleaner(1)

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version 2.46 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 profile-cleaner — the manual, bestie 💅

✨ NAME ✨

Okay so profile-cleaner is literally here to shrink browser profiles and some email program's profiles by organizing their sqlite databases with sqlite3's vacuum and reindex functions. And yes, the word “browser” is used loosely — profile-cleaner happily works on some email clients too, no cap. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

profile-cleaner [option]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So profile-cleaner is a very simple shell script that invokes sqlite3 to vacuum and reindex databases belonging to supported browsers and email clients. It's compatible with profile-sync-daemon, so users need not stop psd before calling profile-cleaner. In fact, profiles will clean much faster when they are synced to tmpfs via psd. It's giving efficiency, honestly. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

One bullet per option, bestie — keep up:

  • b — clean brave's profile 💅
  • c — clean chromium's profile
  • ck — clean conkeror's profile(s)*
  • e — clean edge's profile
  • f — clean firefox's profile(s)*
  • fa — clean falkon's profile
  • gc — clean google-chrome's profile
  • h — clean heftig aurora's profile(s)*
  • i — clean icecat's profile(s)*
  • id — clean icedove's profile
  • ix — clean Inox's profile
  • l — clean Librewolf's profile
  • m — clean midori's profile
  • o — clean opera's profile
  • t — clean thunderbird's profile(s)*
  • to — clean tor-browser's profile
  • s — clean seamonkey's profile(s)*
  • pm — clean palemoon's profile(s)*
  • p — clean the defined paths
  • v — clean vivaldi's profile
*Profile-cleaner will parse the respective profiles.ini file and clean all profiles defined therein. iykyk — all the profiles in there get the treatment. 🫶

🌈 CONFIG FILE 🌈

Profile-cleaner will create $HOME/.config/profile-cleaner.conf the first time it is invoked. Users may define a color scheme therein based on their terminal background color. The default is a dark scheme for dark colored terminals. The file is commented and self-explanatory. So cute, so customizable. 🎀

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Clean all firefox profiles:

$ profile-cleaner f

Clean chromium profile:

$ profile-cleaner c

Clean the user defined profile:

$ profile-cleaner p /path/to/profile

👑 SUPPORTED BROWSERS AND EMAIL CLIENTS 👑

Currently, the following are supported:

That's the whole roster — no gatekeeping. 💖

🔥 SAMPLE OUTPUT 🔥

Sample output invoking the firefox option (your mileage will vary).

$ profile-cleaner f
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/cookies.sqlite reduced by .87 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/signons.sqlite reduced by .41 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/downloads.sqlite reduced by .56 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/chromeappsstore.sqlite reduced by .03 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/urlclassifier3.sqlite reduced by 43.10 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/formhistory.sqlite reduced by .11 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/addons.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/permissions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/content-prefs.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/extensions.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/webappsstore.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/OfflineCache/index.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/search.sqlite reduced by 0 Mbytes
/home/facade/.mozilla/firefox/zee52krz.default/places.sqlite reduced by 9.98 Mbytes

firefox profile reduced by 55.06 Mbytes

Look at those Mbytes leaving the chat. Obsessed. ✨

🫶 CONTRIBUTE 🫶

Should you wish to contribute to this code, please fork and send a pull request. Source is freely available on github: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-cleaner

Fork it, fix it, send the PR — main character open-source energy. 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

None known.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

graysky (therealgraysky AT proton DOT me)

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

profile-sync-deamon (1)

💖 And that's the profile-cleaner(1) manual — source/version tag: profile-cleaner(1), dated 29 May 2023. Go forth and vacuum, bestie! 💖

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