Delete old tweets based on twitter archive

deloldtweets.py

#!/bin/python3
# Fork of https://gist.github.com/davej/113241
# Requirements:
# - twitter API credentials (replace the correponding variables)
# - tweet.js file you get by extracting your twitter archive zip file (located in data/)
#  License : Unlicense http://unlicense.org/

import tweepy
import 

import json
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from dateutil import parser

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''
days_to_keep = 365

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

utc = pytz.UTC
cutoff_date = utc.localize(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days_to_keep))

fp = open("tweet.js","r")
fp.seek(25) # skip to '[' which is the beginning of the json part
myjson = json.load(fp)

for i in range(len(myjson)):
    parsed_date = parser.parse(myjson[i]['tweet']['created_at'])
    # print(parsed_date)
    if parsed_date < cutoff_date:
        # beware, this operation is irreversible
        try:
            # print("Destroying tweet %s" % myjson[i]['tweet']['id_str'])
            api.destroy_status(myjson[i]['tweet']['id_str'])
        except Exception as e:
            print("There was an exception: %s." % e)
            pass

Hi @Carolinewk, no worries.
There are two main requirements actually:

1. You need to get access to Twitter API, navigate http://apps.twitter.com/ and create an app from your account. You'll then need to fill some basic information but this operation is quite straightforward. Upon success, you'll get 4 elements (consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret). Replace with the corresponding values in lines 15-19, make sure you are the only one to know the values.
2. You need to download your personal twitter archive. For this, please see https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive. Once downloaded, you'll get a zip file, unzip it and extract a file named tweet.js located in data/.

Once you completed these 2 steps you'll just have to configure and run the script above.
Are you using windows ?

Hi @Carolinewk, no worries.
There are two main requirements actually:

1. You need to get access to Twitter API, navigate http://apps.twitter.com/ and create an app from your account. You'll then need to fill some basic information but this operation is quite straightforward. Upon success, you'll get 4 elements (consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret). Replace with the corresponding values in lines 15-19, make sure you are the only one to know the values.
2. You need to download your personal twitter archive. For this, please see https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive. Once downloaded, you'll get a zip file, unzip it and extract a file named tweet.js located in data/.

Once you completed these 2 steps you'll just have to configure and run the script above.
Are you using windows ?

Yeah. I'm using windows. Actually I did everything and the keys are already with me. I just can't run the code haha, pretty stupid but It still very confusing to me (I have no experience with python).

I think it's supposed to configure it with IDLE, right? I just put the keys there.
I created a folder, put your script there (deloldtweets.py), edited it with the IDLE (putting the keys in the beginning), and finally, put the tweet.js file there.

So, in the folder there's only these 2 files. But I don't know how to run them. I tried CMD and Powershell. With cmd: I put (cd + folder location) and then python deloldtweets.py. It didn't work. And with powershell I did the same. Nothing happens :(

Sorry if it's not clear.

Hi @Carolinewk, no worries.
There are two main requirements actually:

1. You need to get access to Twitter API, navigate http://apps.twitter.com/ and create an app from your account. You'll then need to fill some basic information but this operation is quite straightforward. Upon success, you'll get 4 elements (consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret). Replace with the corresponding values in lines 15-19, make sure you are the only one to know the values.
2. You need to download your personal twitter archive. For this, please see https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive. Once downloaded, you'll get a zip file, unzip it and extract a file named tweet.js located in data/.

Once you completed these 2 steps you'll just have to configure and run the script above.
Are you using windows ?

Yeah. I'm using windows. Actually I did everything and the keys are already with me. I just can't run the code haha, pretty stupid but It still very confusing to me (I have no experience with python).

I think it's supposed to configure it with IDLE, right? I just put the keys there.
I created a folder, put your script there (deloldtweets.py), edited it with the IDLE (putting the keys in the beginning), and finally, put the tweet.js file there.

So, in the folder there's only these 2 files. But I don't know how to run them. I tried CMD and Powershell. With cmd: I put (cd + folder location) and then python deloldtweets.py. It didn't work. And with powershell I did the same. Nothing happens :(

Sorry if it's not clear.

Okay, it might be tricky as I don't have a Windows machine on hand.
Basically you're all set once you have defined the parameters in lines 15-19 and put the tweet.js file in the same directory.
Can you try running execfile('deloldtweets.py') from the IDLE shell?