Delete tweets older than 23h

twitter-deleter.js

const Twit = require('twit')

const USERNAME = 'GPujs'

//get this from https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/dashboard
const CONSUMER_KEY = ''
const CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
const ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
const ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

var T = new Twit({
  consumer_key:         CONSUMER_KEY,
  consumer_secret:      CONSUMER_SECRET,
  access_token:         ACCESS_TOKEN,
  access_token_secret:  ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
  timeout_ms:           60*1000,  // optional HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
  strictSSL:            true,     // optional - requires SSL certificates to be valid.
})

async function start(){
  let ids = []
  let last24h = new Date().getTime() - 86400000
  let last23h = new Date().getTime() - 82800000
  T.get('statuses/user_timeline', { screen_name: USERNAME, count: 100 }, async (err, result) => {
     if (err && err.code == 50) console.log(err)
     else if (err) console.log(err)
     for (i in result){
       let created = new Date(result[i].created_at).getTime()
       if (created > last24h && created < last23h) {
         ids.push(result[i].id_str)
       }
     }
     for (i in ids){
       await deleteTweet(ids[i])
     }
  })
}

function deleteTweet(id){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    T.post('statuses/destroy/:id', { id: id }, function (err, data, response) {
      if (err) console.log(err); resolve(true)
      resolve(true)
    })
  })
}

setInterval(() => {
  start()
}, 1000 * 60 * 60 * 30) //every 30 minutes