Some Python script to delete all your tweets (or until a certain cutoff date) based on Twitter Archive (tweet.js)

twitter_cleaner.py

import requests
import json
import sys
import time

from requests.models import Response

# Common Twitter WebApp Bearer
USER_AUTH_TOKEN = "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs%3D1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA"

# Credentials
# Copy of the cookie passed in requests (usually start with "night_mode=")
USER_COOKIE = "<secret>"
# Copy of the header value of "x-csrf-token"
USER_CSRF = "<secret>"
RETRY_BASE_SECONDS = 5

DELETE_GRAPHQL_METHOD_ID = "VaenaVgh5q5ih7kvyVjgtg"
DELETE_ENDPOINT_URL = (
    f"https://x.com/i/api/graphql/{DELETE_GRAPHQL_METHOD_ID}/DeleteTweet"
)


def delete_tweet_by_id(
    tweet_id: str, auth_token: str, cookie: str, csrf: str
) -> Response:
    if "ct0=" not in cookie:
        cookie = cookie + "; ct0=" + csrf

    headers = {
        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "x-twitter-auth-type": "OAuth2Session",
        "x-twitter-client-language": "en-GB",
        "x-twitter-active-user": "yes",
        "Origin": "https://x.com",
        "Referer": "https://x.com",
        "Cookie": cookie,
        "x-csrf-token": csrf,
        "authorization": "Bearer " + auth_token,
    }

    data = {
        "variables": json.dumps({"tweet_id": tweet_id, "dark_request": False}),
        "queryId": DELETE_GRAPHQL_METHOD_ID,
    }

    return requests.post(DELETE_ENDPOINT_URL, headers=headers, json=data)


if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("Usage <tweet.js> [cutoff_date]")
    print("example cutoff_date: Mon Oct 20 01:44:42 +0000 2025")
    sys.exit(1)

raw_tweets = open(sys.argv[1], "rb").read().decode("utf-8")
cutoff_date = None

if len(sys.argv) >= 3:
    cutoff_date = time.strptime(sys.argv[2], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")


json_start_index = raw_tweets.find("[")

if json_start_index == -1:
    print("Start of tweet.js data not found (malformed file?s)")
    sys.exit(1)

tweets = json.loads(raw_tweets[json_start_index:])
for data in tweets:
    tweet: str = data["tweet"]
    created_at_date = time.strptime(tweet["created_at"], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")

    if not cutoff_date or created_at_date < cutoff_date:
        should_retry = True

        retry_seconds = RETRY_BASE_SECONDS

        while should_retry:
            res = delete_tweet_by_id(
                tweet["id_str"],
                auth_token=USER_AUTH_TOKEN,
                cookie=USER_COOKIE,
                csrf=USER_CSRF,
            )
            print(f"{tweet['id_str']} {res.text}")

            should_retry = res.status_code == 429

            if should_retry:
                error_message = res.json()["errors"][0]["message"]

                # Twitter GraphQL API will tell you you are rate limited to 500 but it will actually perform deletion
                # This behaviour seems to change when you hit the limit 1000 marker resulting in global account rate limiting.
                # XXX: November 2024 update: Rate limits seem completely gone on Twitter now?!
                if (
                    error_message
                    == "Rate limit exceeded for feature graphql_operation_mutation with limit 500"
                ):
                    break

                print(f"{tweet['id_str']} RETRYING IN {retry_seconds} seconds")
                time.sleep(retry_seconds)

                retry_seconds += RETRY_BASE_SECONDS