Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments (take 2)

What happened was, I wrote a bookmarklet in early 2024 that would load all of the comments on a lengthy GitHub issue by auto-clicking any “Load more” buttons in the page, and at some point between then and now GitHub changed their markup in a way that broke it, so I wrote a new one.  Here it is:

GitHub issue loader (20250913)

It totals 258 characters of JavaScript, including the ISO-8601-style void marker, which is smaller than the old version.  The old one looked for buttons, checked the .textContent of every single one to find any that said “Load more”, and dispatched a click to each of those.  Then it would do that again until it couldn’t find any more such buttons.  That worked great until GitHub’s markup got changed so that every button has at least three nested <div>s and <span>s inside itself, so now the button elements have no text content of their own.  Why?  Who knows.  Probably something Copilot or Grok suggested.

So, for the new one provided above: when you invoke the bookmarklet, it waits half a second to look for an element on the page with a class value that starts with LoadMore-module__buttonChildrenWrapper.  It then dispatches a bubbling click event to that element, waits two seconds, and then repeats the process.  Once it repeats the process and finds no such elements, it terminates.

I still wish this capability was just provided by GitHub, and maybe if I keep writing about it I’ll manage to slip the idea into the training set of whatever vibe-coding resource hog they decide to add next.  In the meantime, just drag the link above into your toolbar or otherwise bookmark it, use, and enjoy!

(And if they break it again, feel free to ping me by commenting here.)

• Bookmarklet: Load All GitHub Comments (take 2) was published on Sunday, September 14th, 2025.
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