Mass toot eraser

massdeleter.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Replace the following variables with your actual values
INSTANCE_URL="https://vmst.io" # This is just an axample
ACCESS_TOKEN="asdasdas" # Get it from /settings/applications in your Mastodon instance. 
USER_ID="12312312312" # Find your own ID with https://INSTANCE/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials | jq '.id'

# Get the first page of your statuses
STATUSES=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" "$INSTANCE_URL/api/v1/accounts/$USER_ID/statuses")

# Loop until there are no more statuses
while [ -n "$STATUSES" ]; do
  # Extract the status IDs from the JSON array
  IDS=$(echo $STATUSES | jq -r '.[].id')
  # Loop through each status ID
  for ID in $IDS; do
    # Delete the status by ID
    DELETION=$(curl -s -X DELETE "$INSTANCE_URL/api/v1/statuses/$ID" -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN")
    echo $DELETION | jq '.text'
    # Stop for 60 second
    echo "Pausing 60 seconds"
    sleep 60
    # Print a message
    echo "Deleted status $ID"
  done
  # Get the next page of your statuses using the last status ID as max_id
  STATUSES=$(curl "$INSTANCE_URL/api/v1/accounts/$USER_ID/statuses?max_id=$ID" -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN")   
  echo "Pausing before getting the next statuses"
  sleep 1
done

# Print a final message
echo "All statuses deleted"