Simple python script to delete all chat messages in your keybase account.
It shells out to the keybase CLI command to access the keybase api.
It expects you to have logged into the device where it is run with the account you wish to cleanup. It also requires python3 be installed.
Verify it is correctly setup via:
$ keybase chat ls
Then run via
python3 keybase-chat-clenaup.py USERNAME
It has been tested on OSX.
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| import json | |
| import sys | |
| import subprocess | |
| import time | |
| from time import sleep | |
| def list_conversations(): | |
| list_json = json.dumps({"method": "list"}) | |
| output = subprocess.check_output(["keybase", "chat", "api", "-m", list_json]) | |
| return json.loads(output)["result"]["conversations"] | |
| def delete_message(channel_name, message_id): | |
| delete_json = json.dumps( | |
| {"method": "delete", | |
| "params": { | |
| "options": { | |
| "channel": {"name": channel_name}, | |
| "message_id": message_id}}}) | |
| output = subprocess.check_output(["keybase", "chat", "api", "-m", delete_json]) | |
| return json.loads(output) | |
| def list_messages(conversation_name): | |
| messages_json = json.dumps( | |
| {"method": "read", | |
| "params": { | |
| "options": { | |
| "channel": {"name": conversation_name}}}}) | |
| output = subprocess.check_output(["keybase", "chat", "api", "-m", messages_json]) | |
| return json.loads(output)["result"]["messages"] | |
| def delete_all_my_messages(username): | |
| for c in list_conversations(): | |
| try: | |
| name = c["channel"]["name"] | |
| print("Processing channel {}".format(name)) | |
| for m in list_messages(name): | |
| message_id = m["msg"]["id"] | |
| channel_name = m["msg"]["channel"]["name"] | |
| sender_username = m["msg"]["sender"]["username"] | |
| content_type = m["msg"]["content"]["type"] | |
| # Skip messages if they were not sent by me or are already deleted | |
| if (sender_username != username) or (content_type == "delete"): | |
| print("Skipping message '{}' from channel '{}' sent by '{}' with contenct_type '{}'.".format(message_id, channel_name, sender_username, content_type)) | |
| continue | |
| print("Deleting message '{}' from channel '{}' sent by '{}' with contenct_type '{}'.".format(message_id, channel_name, sender_username, content_type)) | |
| res = delete_message(channel_name, message_id) | |
| result_message = res["result"]["message"] | |
| print("Result for '{}' '{}': '{}'.".format(message_id, channel_name, result_message)) | |
| except Exception as e: | |
| print("Error: {}".format(e)) | |
| continue | |
| def run(): | |
| if (len(sys.argv) < 2): | |
| print("Usage {} USERNAME".format(sys.argv[0])) | |
| sys.exit(1) | |
| username = sys.argv[1] | |
| delete_all_my_messages(username) | |
| run() |