# Discourse close & archive topic userscript
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211
**Category:** General
**Created:** [February 14, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211 "2025-02-14T04:23:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 4:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/1 "2025-02-14T04:23:57Z")
(Maybe could fit in #Development, but shoved it here since I wasn’t sure)
While cleaning up my inbox on forum I manage a bit by closing and archiving old group membership request PMs, I got annoyed with doing it manually.
I hereby present the userscript to do it for you! You just right click, go to the “Tampermonkey” option, then run the “Close and Archive” script!
Code:
```javascript
// ==UserScript==
// @name Close and Archive
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 2025-02-14
// @description Closes and Archives the currently open topic/private message when run
// @author Firepup Sixfifty
// @match https://=hostname=/*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=amcforum.wiki
// @grant none
// @run-at context-menu
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
fetch(`https://${window.location.hostname}/t/${window.location.pathname.split('/')[3]}/status`, {
"headers": {
"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
"accept": "application/json",
"x-csrf-token": document.querySelector("[name='csrf-token']").content
},
"body": "status=closed&enabled=true",
"method": "PUT"
}).then((r)=>{
fetch(`https://${window.location.hostname}/t/${window.location.pathname.split('/')[3]}/status`, {
"headers": {
"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
"accept": "application/json",
"x-csrf-token": document.querySelector("[name='csrf-token']").content
},
"body": "status=archived&enabled=true",
"method": "PUT"
}).then((r)=>{
fetch(`https://${window.location.hostname}/t/${window.location.pathname.split('/')[3]}/archive-message`, {
"headers": {
"accept": "application/json",
"x-csrf-token": document.querySelector("[name='csrf-token']").content
},
"method": "PUT"
});
})
})
})();
```
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/2 "2025-02-14T05:06:31Z")
Wait… so how do I run this? Where should I place it?
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/3 "2025-02-14T05:20:30Z")
It’s a script written for the Tampermonkey browser extension
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/4 "2025-02-14T13:27:56Z")
Does it do more than the a shortcut when we’re on a PM page?
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/5 "2025-02-14T16:02:52Z")
Yes - It also closes the PM.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/6 "2025-02-14T16:45:28Z")
Archived posts can’t be replied to:
> [@Difference between Archived and Closed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difference-between-archived-and-closed/32789/2):
>
> In Archived, you can’t like, edit, or otherwise interact with the posts.
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/7 "2025-02-14T17:55:37Z")
Idk I just close them in case some staff member stumbles upon them by mistake it’s more clear that they’re not supposed to be replied to.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/8 "2025-02-14T18:07:45Z")
Are you an admin or only a moderator? If you are admin, you could probably create a theme component instead of relying on a userscript.
That said, for sites on which you can’t edit the code, userscripts are still an interesting solution for various improvements.
I use them for many websites.
On [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org), I have one that adds a Ctrl+Shift+k shortcut to wrap my selected text with `` tags inside the composer 🙂
```js
// ==UserScript==
// @name shortcut for meta.discourse.org
// @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts
// @version 1.0
// @description Insert tags into textareas on meta.discourse.org with Ctrl + Shift + k
// @author chatGPT
// @match https://meta.discourse.org/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
document.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {
if (event.ctrlKey && event.shiftKey && event.key === 'K') {
const activeElement = document.activeElement;
if (activeElement.tagName === 'TEXTAREA' && activeElement.classList.contains('ember-text-area')) {
const start = activeElement.selectionStart;
const end = activeElement.selectionEnd;
const text = activeElement.value;
const insertText = '';
const closeText = '';
const selectedText = text.slice(start, end);
activeElement.value = text.slice(0, start) + insertText + selectedText + closeText + text.slice(end);
const cursorPosition = end === start
? start + insertText.length
: start + insertText.length + selectedText.length + closeText.length;
activeElement.selectionStart = activeElement.selectionEnd = cursorPosition;
event.preventDefault();
}
}
});
})();
```
Also, I don’t user Tampermonkey as it’s closed source, I prefer using open source software, and there are several contender (they all look the same and the scripts are cross-compatibles). I think the most used is [Violentmonkey](https://violentmonkey.github.io/).
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/9 "2025-02-14T18:18:10Z")
> [@Canapin](#):
>
> Are you an admin or only a moderator? If you are admin, you could probably create a theme component instead of relying on a userscript.
I just threw it in a userscript because I was too lazy to make a TC for it, and this was faster to edit and test (I originally just ran it in the console a handful of times to test it)
> [@Canapin](#):
>
> On [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org), I have one that adds a Ctrl+Shift+k shortcut to wrap my selected text with `` tags inside the composer
Oooooooh that’s actually really nice to have, ty for sharing!
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-close-archive-topic-userscript/352211/10 "2025-02-14T18:19:28Z")
Just modified the script a bit so it also works on topics, for what that’s worth (This does cause the strange effect of having an archived PM though).