Erase Hipchat history

clear_hipchat.rb

#!/usr/lib/ruby env
# Modified from https://gist.github.com/jpr5/4260656
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
account = {
    :email    => "[email protected]",
    :password => "123456",
}

agent = Mechanize.new
site = agent.post("https://www.hipchat.com/sign_in", account).uri.host

# Get our user id
member_id = agent.get("https://#{site}/account").
    search('img[alt="Your photo"]').first["src"].match(%r{photos/(\d+)})[1]
puts "#{member_id}"

# Determine our Signup date and the actual date
registered_around = agent.get("https://#{site}/people/show/#{member_id}").
    search('li:contains("Signed up")').text.sub(/Signed up: /, '')
registered_on = Date.parse(`date -d "#{registered_around}"`.chomp)
intervals = (registered_on..Date.today).map { |d| d.strftime("/%Y/%m/%d") }

# Identify all users ids
members = agent.get("https://#{site}/people").search("ul.members").children.search("a").
    map { |m| m.attributes["href"].value }.
    reject { |m| m =~ /#{member_id}/ }

messages = {}

members.each do |member|
   puts "#{member}"
   real_member_id = member.match('/[0-9]*/')
   puts "real_member_id #{real_member_id}"

    intervals.each do |interval|
        puts "#{interval}"
        messages[real_member_id] ||= []
        messages[real_member_id] += agent.get("https://#{site}/history/member#{real_member_id}#{interval}").
            search("input[name=message_id]").map { |m| m["value"] }
    end
end

# Delete all messages written by us
messages.each do |real_member_id, msg_ids|
      msg_ids.each do |msg_id|
        agent.post("https://#{site}/history/member#{real_member_id}", {:action => "delete", :message_id => msg_id})
        puts "#{msg_id}"
    end
end

spam (?): Working version: https://gist.github.com/lukaszraczylo/11309053