Script to delete tweets using the twitter data export output file

delete_my_tweets.js

/*
 * Usage: node delete_my_tweets.js {TWITTER_DATA_EXPORT}/data/tweets.js
 * Set your twitter api keys before running the script on these env variables:
 *   TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_KEY
 *   TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_SECRET
 *   TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
 *   TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET
*/

import { TwitterApi } from "twitter-api-v2";
import fs from "fs";

const DELETED_TWEETS_FILE = "deleted.json";
const deletedTweets = fs.existsSync(DELETED_TWEETS_FILE)
  ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(DELETED_TWEETS_FILE, "utf8"))
  : [];

const client = new TwitterApi({
  appKey: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_KEY,
  appSecret: process.env.TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_SECRET,
  accessToken: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN,
  accessSecret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET,
});

const delay = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

const deleteTweet = async (tweetId) => {
  try {
    const response = await client.v2.deleteTweet(tweetId);
    console.log(response);
    if (response?.data?.deleted) {
      deletedTweets.push(tweetId);
      await delay(2000);
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  } catch (e) {
    console.error(e);
    return false;
  }
};

async function run() {
  const tweetsJs = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2], "utf8");
  const tweets = JSON.parse(tweetsJs.replace("window.YTD.tweets.part0 = ", ""));
  let i = 0;
  for (const tweet of tweets) {
    console.log("Tweet", i, tweet.tweet.id_str, tweet.tweet.favorite_count);
    i++;
    if (parseInt(tweet?.tweet?.favorite_count || "0") > 300) {
      continue;
    }
    const tweetId = tweet.tweet.id_str;
    if (!deletedTweets.includes(tweetId)) {
      const deleted = await deleteTweet(tweetId);
      if (!deleted) {
        console.error("Failed to delete tweet", tweetId);
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  fs.writeFileSync(
    DELETED_TWEETS_FILE,
    JSON.stringify(deletedTweets, null, 2),
    "utf8"
  );
}

run();

Prerequisites

1. You need to set up twitter developer account, follow https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/getting-access-to-the-twitter-api

2. Export your API keys before running the script:

export TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_KEY=
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_APP_SECRET=
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=
export TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=

3. You also need to download your tweets from https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

4. When you're all set up, run node delete_my_tweets.js {TWITTER_DATA_EXPORT}/data/tweets.js

You can tweak the filter to select which tweets to be deleted, current filter reads: parseInt(tweet?.tweet?.favorite_count || "0") > 300 which implies "do not delete tweets with more than 300 likes".

Hello,

wanted to ask how I can get the JS to work? Do I have to start it in the Chrome Console? If so, where do I have to put the file?
Tesekürler! :)

Hi, you run it with node on the terminal (step 4 above).