cleanTweets.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
# encoding: utf-8

import tweepy

###########################
# Twitter API credentials #
###########################
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
screen_name = ""
###########################
# delete-logic see follow #
###########################

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

alltweets = []
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200)
alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1

while len(new_tweets) > 0:
    print(f"getting tweets before {oldest}")
    new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,max_id=oldest)
    alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
    oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
    print(f"...{len(alltweets)} tweets downloaded so far")
print("Load completed!")

deleted = []
import time

for tweet in alltweets:
    ######################################################
    if tweet.favorite_count + tweet.retweet_count * 2 < 6:
    ######################################################
        print("[*] Bye bye %s %s" % (tweet.id_str, tweet.text))
        deleted.append(tweet)
        api.destroy_status(tweet.id)
        time.sleep(0.2)

# Delete next line if you want to save deleted tweet to
# ./new_{screen_name}_tweetsDeleted.csv
exit()

import csv
outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text] for tweet in deleted]
with open(f'new_{screen_name}_tweetsDeleted.csv', 'w') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"])
    writer.writerows(outtweets)
pass