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README.md

Delete All your Tweets

This script it based on @chrisalbon's original script, but instead of fetching the users timeline via the Twitter API it uses the archive of the users data to workaround the 3200 tweet limitation.

Setup

1. Create a virtualenv
2. Run pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Create a Twitter developer app.

Preparing the data

1. Download an archive of your Twitter data from Twitter. (link)
2. Copy data/tweet.js to your working directory and call the file all-tweets.json.
3. Remove the window.YTD.tweet.part0 = part of the first line of the file.

Running

1. Set the environment variables TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, and TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET.
2. Run python wipe.py
3. ?
4. Profit

Potentail Improvements

• This process could be made faster with multiprocessing or threads to be faster.

requirements.txt

certifi==2020.12.5
chardet==4.0.0
idna==2.10
oauthlib==3.1.0
PySocks==1.7.1
requests==2.25.1
requests-oauthlib==1.3.0
six==1.15.0
tweepy==3.10.0
urllib3==1.26.4
wheel==0.24.0

tweet_deleting_script.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

""" Deletes all tweets below a certain retweet threshold.
Original by @chrisalbon
Modified by @k0nserv
"""

from datetime import datetime
import os
import json

import tweepy


def from_env(key):
    value = os.getenv(key, None)

    if value is None:
        raise ValueError(f"Env variable {key} must be provided")

    return value


# Constants
CONSUMER_KEY = from_env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY')
CONSUMER_SECRET = from_env('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET')
ACCESS_TOKEN = from_env('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN')
ACCESS_SECRET = from_env('TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET')

# Connect To Your Twitter Account via Twitter API
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)

api = tweepy.API(auth,
                 wait_on_rate_limit=True,
                 wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True,
                 retry_count=3,
                 retry_delay=5,
                 retry_errors=set([401, 404, 500, 503]))


def load_deleted():
    with open('deleted.json') as f:
        return set(json.load(f))


def save_deleted(deleted):
    with open('deleted.json', 'w') as f:
        json.dump(list(deleted), f)


def delete_all_tweets(ids):
    deleted = load_deleted()

    for (idx, status_id) in enumerate(ids):
        if status_id in deleted:
            continue

        print(datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"), 'Deleting', status_id)

        try:
            api.destroy_status(status_id)
            deleted.add(status_id)

            if idx % 10 == 0:
                save_deleted(deleted)
        except tweepy.error.TweepError as e:
            if e.api_code == 144:
                deleted.add(status_id)
                save_deleted(deleted)
                pass
            else:
                raise e


# Run main function
if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('all-tweets.json') as f:
        data = json.load(f)

        delete_all_tweets((tweet['tweet']['id'] for tweet in data))