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This script will delete all of the tweets in a specified account.
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
""" | |
This script will delete all of the tweets in the specified account. | |
You may need to hit the "more" button on the bottom of your twitter profile | |
page every now and then as the script runs, this is due to a bug in twitter. | |
You will need to get a consumer key and consumer secret token to use this | |
script, you can do so by registering a twitter application at https://dev.twitter.com/apps | |
@requirements: Python 3+, Tweepy (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tweepy/1.7.1) | |
""" | |
import tweepy | |
CONSUMER_KEY = '' | |
CONSUMER_SECRET = '' | |
def oauth_login(consumer_key, consumer_secret): | |
"""Authenticate with twitter using OAuth""" | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url() | |
verify_code = raw_input("Authenticate at %s and then enter you verification code here > " % auth_url) | |
auth.get_access_token(verify_code) | |
return tweepy.API(auth) | |
def batch_delete(api): | |
do_delete = raw_input("> ") | |
if do_delete.lower() == 'yes': | |
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items(): | |
try: | |
api.destroy_status(status.id) | |
api = oauth_login(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) | |
batch_delete(api) | |
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