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 2.5+, Tweepy (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tweepy/1.7.1) | |
@author: Dave Jeffery | |
""" | |
import tweepy | |
CONSUMER_KEY = 'XXX' | |
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'XXX' | |
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): | |
print "You are about to Delete all tweets from the account @%s." % api.verify_credentials().screen_name | |
print "Does this sound ok? There is no undo! Type yes to carry out this action." | |
do_delete = raw_input("> ") | |
if do_delete.lower() == 'yes': | |
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items(): | |
try: | |
api.destroy_status(status.id) | |
print "Deleted:", status.id | |
except: | |
print "Failed to delete:", status.id | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
api = oauth_login(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) | |
print "Authenticated as: %s" % api.me().screen_name | |
batch_delete(api) |
Updated version to use with Python 3 https://gist.github.com/iharmanpannu/372788f40d9e7f12bd4baea195a14095
Updated version to use with Python 3 https://gist.github.com/iharmanpannu/372788f40d9e7f12bd4baea195a14095
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Updated version to use with Python 3 https://gist.github.com/iharmanpannu/372788f40d9e7f12bd4baea195a14095
The link isn't working.
just copy paste it
Updated version to use with Python 3 https://gist.github.com/iharmanpannu/372788f40d9e7f12bd4baea195a14095
A very simple NodeJS script to wipe all your tweets including step-by-step directions for obtaining all necessary tokens/keys:
https://github.com/wayne530/twitter-wipe
still working ? i need to do this on my tiwtter archive
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Hi!, I want to delete all my tweets. I do all instructions on your repo and get my auth to set up. But, after running it, my tweets it's still the same / not deleted.
Are there any specific settings when creating the API? Such as Permissions? cause, I only see permission to read and write, not to delete tweets.