Nuke HipChat 1:1 History

b00m.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

account = {
    :email    => "[email protected]",
    :password => "balls",
}

agent = Mechanize.new
site = agent.post("https://www.hipchat.com/sign_in", account).uri.host

# get numeric UID
member_id = agent.get("https://#{site}/account").
    search('img[alt="Your photo"]').first["src"].match(%r{photos/(\d+)})[1]

# determine intervals
registered_around = agent.get("https://#{site}/members/#{member_id}").
    search('li:contains("Signed up")').text.sub(/Signed up: /, '')
registered_on = Date.parse(`date -d "#{registered_around}"`.chomp)
intervals = (registered_on..Date.today).map { |d| d.strftime("/%Y/%m/%d") }

# identify 1:1 chats
members = agent.get("https://#{site}/history").search("ul.members").children.search("a").
    map { |m| m.attributes["href"].value }.
    reject { |m| m =~ /#{member_id}/ }

# walk intervals for each member, capture message_id's
messages = {}

members.each do |member|
    intervals.each do |interval|
        messages[member] ||= []
        messages[member] += agent.get("https://#{site}#{member}#{interval}").
            search("input[name=message_id]").map { |m| m["value"] }
    end
end

messages.each do |member, msg_ids|
    msg_ids.each do |msg_id|
        agent.post("https://#{site}#{member}", {:action => "delete", :message_id => msg_id})
    end
end

@lucygeneric : This one does.
https://gist.github.com/lukaszraczylo/11309053