tweetdelete/tweetdelete.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

import toml
import tweepy
from xdg import xdg_config_home

# options
twitter_config = toml.load(os.path.join(xdg_config_home(), "twitter.toml"))
test_mode = twitter_config["test_mode"] if "test_mode" in twitter_config else False
verbose = twitter_config["verbose"] if "verbose" in twitter_config else False
days_to_keep = twitter_config["days_to_keep"] if "days_to_keep" in twitter_config else 30
tweets_to_save = twitter_config["tweets_to_save"] if "tweets_to_save" in twitter_config else []
secrets = twitter_config["secrets"]

# auth and api
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(secrets['api_key'], secrets['api_key_secret'])
auth.set_access_token(secrets['access_token'], secrets['access_token_secret'])
api = tweepy.API(auth)

# set cutoff date, use utc to match twitter
cutoff_date = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=days_to_keep)

# get all timeline tweets
print("Retrieving timeline tweets")
timeline = tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items()
deletion_count = 0
ignored_count = 0

for tweet in timeline:
    # where tweets are not in save list and older than cutoff date
    if tweet.id not in tweets_to_save and tweet.created_at < cutoff_date:
        if verbose:
            print("Deleting %d: [%s] %s" %
                  (tweet.id, tweet.created_at, tweet.text))
        if not test_mode:
            api.destroy_status(tweet.id)

        deletion_count += 1
    else:
        ignored_count += 1

print("Deleted %d tweets, ignored %d" % (deletion_count, ignored_count))