Simple python script to remove twitter likes.

twitter-like-remover.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
    Remove likes (favorite) from your tweets using twitter API
    you need to install twitter-client for python to use this code:
    pip install python-twitter ( more info https://github.com/bear/python-twitter)
    to use this you need to generate authntication tokens for your account
    find more info on (https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/access-tokens)

"""

import asyncio
import concurrent.futures

import twitter

NUMBER_OF_TWEETS = 1000
WORKERS = 2

twitter_api_client = twitter.Api(
    consumer_key='CONSUMER_KEY',
    consumer_secret='CONSUMER_SECRET',
    access_token_key='ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY',
    access_token_secret='ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET'
)


def remove_tweet(tweet_id):
    """
    destroy favorite using twitter API
    :param tweet_id: status_id of tweet (string)
    :return: None
    """
    try:
        twitter_api_client.DestroyFavorite(status_id=tweet_id)
        print('removed fav from %s' % tweet_id)
    except twitter.TwitterError as e:
        print('problem with removing Fav from %s' % tweet_id)
        print(e)


# Get list of favorited(liked) tweets
liked_tweets = twitter_api_client.GetFavorites(count=NUMBER_OF_TWEETS)

print('liked tweets count: %s' % len(liked_tweets))


async def main():
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(
            max_workers=WORKERS) as executor:
        futures = [
            loop.run_in_executor(
                executor,
                remove_tweet,
                tweet.id
            )
            for tweet in liked_tweets
        ]
        await asyncio.gather(*futures)


event_loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
event_loop.run_until_complete(main())