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Delete tweets programmatically. You need to install pip install tweepy.
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
from __future__ import print_function | |
import tweepy | |
import itertools | |
import datetime | |
# OAuth application | |
consumer_key = "<<CONSUMER_KEY>>" | |
consumer_secret = "<<CONSUMER_SECRET>>" | |
# OAuth account | |
access_token = "<<ACCESS_TOKEN>>" | |
access_token_secret = "<<ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET>>" | |
# Delete tweets older than this ID | |
max_id = 807213779268358144 | |
dry_run = False | |
# in case you want to filter status by dates | |
startDate = datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0) | |
endDate = datetime.datetime(2016, 12, 31, 0, 0, 0) | |
# authentication | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) | |
api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
screen_name = api.verify_credentials().screen_name | |
def get_statuses_by_dates(): | |
tweets = [] | |
tmpTweets = tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items() | |
for tweet in tmpTweets: | |
if tweet.created_at >= startDate and tweet.created_at <= endDate: | |
tweets.append(tweet) | |
return tweets | |
def get_statuses_by_max_id(): | |
return tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, max_id = max_id).items() | |
def print_status(tweet): | |
print("Deleted: ", tweet.id, " - Date: ", tweet.created_at, " - ", tweet.text.encode('utf8')) | |
def delete_status(tweet): | |
try: | |
if dry_run == False: | |
api.destroy_status(tweet.id) | |
print_status(tweet) | |
except: | |
print("Failed to delete: ", tweet.id) | |
print("Deleting tweets for: @", screen_name) | |
for status in get_statuses_by_dates(): | |
delete_status(status) |
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