Interactively delete tweets from your timeline using tweepy

delete_tweets.py

import tweepy
import os
import logging
import re

def create_api():
    consumer_key = os.getenv("CONSUMER_KEY")
    consumer_secret = os.getenv("CONSUMER_SECRET")
    access_token = os.getenv("ACCESS_TOKEN")
    access_token_secret = os.getenv("ACCESS_SECRET")

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True, wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True)
    try:
        api.verify_credentials()
    except Exception as e:
        logging.error("Error creating API", exc_info=True)
        raise e
    logging.info("API created")
    return api

text = '''
TEXTFORMATCHING
'''

def main():
    print("Retrieving timeline tweets")
    api = create_api()
    timeline = tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items()

    for tweet in timeline:
        cleaned = re.sub(r"http\S+", "", tweet.text)
        print(tweet.id, cleaned)

        if cleaned[:-5] in text:
            print("MATCH!")

        should_delete = input()

        if should_delete == 'y':
            print("deleting")
            api.destroy_status(tweet.id)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()