delete tweets with tweepy

tweet_delete.py

import json
import tweepy

# 1. Download your twitter archive
# 2. fix the first line of tweets.js to be proper json
# 3. Get twitter API creds
# 4. fix all the SETMEs in here
# 5. run this


CONSUMER_KEY = 'SETME'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'SETME'
ACCESS_TOKEN = 'SETME'
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'SETME'


auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)

with open('tweets.js', 'r') as tweet_file:
  tweet_data = json.load(tweet_file)


omit = {
    'SETME',
    'SETME'
}

for tweet in tweet_data:
    tweet_id = tweet['tweet']['id']

    if tweet_id not in omit:
        try:
            api.destroy_status(tweet_id)
            print('Deleted: {}'.format(tweet_id))
        except Exception as e:  # idk what will happen here
            print('ERROR: {} : {}'.format(tweet_id, e))