A python script to erase all posts from a Tumblr blog.

wipe.py

import pyblr
import oauth2 as oauth
import urllib
import urlparse
import time
 
'''
!WITH PROPER CREDENTIALS THIS WILL ERASE ALL POSTS FROM THE GIVEN TUMBLR BLOG!
 
Use with caution and make sure you know what you're doing. That said this is
probably the easiest way to delete all of your posts if you have thousands of
posts. If you have less than that it might be easier for you to just use the
mass editor in the Tumblr UI.
 
This requires you to get an API key from Tumblr and request xAuth access to
be enabled.
'''
consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
secret_key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY"
username = "YOUR_EMAIL"
password = "YOUR_PASSWORD"
blog_name = "YOUR_BLOG.tumblr.com"
 
xauth_access_token_url = "https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/access_token"
request_token_url = "http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/request_token"
authorize_url = "http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/authorize"
access_token_url = "http://www.tumblr.com/oauth/access_token"
 
consumer = oauth.Consumer(consumer_key,secret_key)
client = oauth.Client(consumer)
client.add_credentials(username,password)
client.authorizations
params = {}
params["x_auth_username"] = username
params["x_auth_password"] = password
params["x_auth_mode"] = 'client_auth'
 
client.set_signature_method = oauth.SignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1()
resp, content = client.request(xauth_access_token_url, method="POST", body=urllib.urlencode(params))
if resp['status'] != '200':
    raise Exception("Invalid response %s. => %s" % (resp['status'], content))
 
token_dict = dict(urlparse.parse_qsl(content))
access_token = oauth.Token(token_dict["oauth_token"], token_dict["oauth_token_secret"])
 
pyblr_client = pyblr.Pyblr(oauth.Client(consumer, access_token))
counter = 0
while True:
    try:
        posts = pyblr_client.posts(blog_name)
        if len(posts) == 0: break
        for p in posts["posts"]:
            pyblr_client.delete_post(blog_name, params={ "id" : p["id"] })
            counter += 1
    except ValueError, err:
        print "ERROR: %s" % (str(err))
        print "sleeping for 5 seconds before retrying"
        time.sleep(5)
 
print "Finished clearing blog: %s" % (blog_name)
print "Deleted %d posts" % (counter)