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Deletes all feed posts from a tumblelog
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// Deletes all feed posts from a tumblelog | |
process.mixin(GLOBAL, require("sys")); | |
var http = require("http"), | |
query = require("querystring"); | |
var hostname, email, password; | |
function fail (message) { | |
puts(message); | |
process.exit(1); | |
} | |
function request (method, path, headers) { | |
if (!headers) headers = []; | |
headers["Host"] = hostname; | |
if (method === "POST") headers["Host"] = "www.tumblr.com"; | |
return http.createClient( | |
80, "tumblr.com" | |
).request(method, path, headers); | |
} | |
function requestForDelete (count) { | |
if (!count) count = 0; | |
request( | |
"GET", | |
"/api/read/json?" + query.stringify({ | |
"callback" : "deleteAndRequestNext" | |
}) | |
).finish(function (res) { | |
if (res.statusCode !== 200) { | |
puts("Tumblr returned " + res.statusCode + " Retrying in 1 second..."); | |
if (count > 5) return fail("Too many tries, giving up."); | |
return setTimeout(function () { | |
requestForDelete(++count); | |
}, 1000); | |
} | |
var body = ""; | |
res.addListener("body", function (chunk) { | |
body += chunk; | |
}).addListener("complete", function () { | |
count = 0; | |
eval(body); | |
}); | |
}); | |
} | |
function deleteAndRequestNext (tumblr) { | |
var bounce = 0, | |
wait = 0, | |
count = 0; | |
tumblr.posts.forEach(function (post) { | |
if (!post["from-feed-id"]) return bounce++; | |
setTimeout(function () { | |
var body = query.stringify({ | |
"email" : email, | |
"password" : password, | |
"post-id" : post.id | |
}); | |
var req = request( | |
"POST", | |
"/api/delete", | |
{ | |
"Content-Type" : "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", | |
"Content-Length" : body.length | |
} | |
); | |
req.sendBody(body); | |
req.finish(function (res) { | |
if ( | |
res.statusCode !== 200 | |
) return puts("Unable to delete " + post.id + " because Tumblr returned " + res.statusCode); | |
res.addListener("complete", function () { | |
puts("Deleted " + post.id); | |
}); | |
}); | |
if (++count === tumblr.posts.length) requestForDelete(); | |
}, wait); | |
wait += 5900; | |
}); | |
if (bounce === tumblr.posts.length) fail("Couldn't find any feed posts to delete."); | |
} | |
process.stdio.addListener("data", function (data) { | |
data = data.replace(/\n/, ""); | |
if (!data) return puts("This is required to proceed. Ctrl-C to abort."); | |
if (!hostname) { | |
hostname = data; | |
return puts("Tumblr email address?"); | |
} | |
if (!email) { | |
email = data; | |
return puts("Tumblr password?"); | |
} | |
if (!password) password = data; | |
if (email && password && hostname) { | |
process.stdio.close(); | |
puts("Untumbling..."); | |
requestForDelete(); | |
} | |
}); | |
puts("This script will delete all feed posts from your Tumblr."); | |
puts("Tumblr hostname?"); | |
process.stdio.open(); |
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