tweet_delete.py

import tweepy # pip3 install tweepy
import json
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone

CONSUMER_KEY = "**********"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "**********"

def oauthLogin(consumerKey, consumerSecret):
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumerKey, consumerSecret)
    authURL = auth.get_authorization_url()
    verifyCode = input(f"Authenticate at {authURL} and then enter you verification code here > ")
    auth.get_access_token(verifyCode)
    return tweepy.API(auth)

def dumpJSON(api, directory):
    out = []

    for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items():
        out.append(status._json)
    
    with open(f"{directory}/tweets.json", "w", encoding = "utf-8") as file:
        json.dump(out, file, ensure_ascii = False, indent = 4)

def confirmDelete(api):
    print(f"You are about to Delete all tweets from the account @{api.verify_credentials().screen_name}.")
    print("Does this sound ok? There is no undo! Type yes to carry out this action.")
    shouldDelete = input("> ")

    if shouldDelete.lower() == "yes" or shouldDelete.lower() == "y":
        return True
    else:
        return False

def destroyTweet(id, text):
    try:
        api.destroy_status(id)
        print(f"Deleted: {id}")
        print(f"{text}")
        print()
    except:
        print(f"Failed to delete: {id}")
        print(f"{text}")
        print()

def batchDelete(api):
    excludedIDs = []
    flaggedKeywords = []

    for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items():
        # Constants
        id = status.id
        text = status._json["text"]
        isOriginalTweet = not status._json["retweeted"]
        twoDaysAgo = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days = 2)
        tweetCreatedAt = datetime.strptime(status._json["created_at"], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")

        if confirmDelete(api):
            # Only delete tweets I don't want to keep
            if id not in excludedIDs:
                # Delete my own tweets
                if isOriginalTweet:
                    # Delete inflamatory tweets
                    if any(x in text for x in flaggedKeywords):
                        destroyTweet(id, text)

                # Delete retweets
                else:
                    # From more than 2 days ago
                    if (tweetCreatedAt < twoDaysAgo):
                        destroyTweet(id, text)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    api = oauthLogin(consumerKey = CONSUMER_KEY, consumerSecret = CONSUMER_SECRET)
    print("Authenticated as: %s" % api.me().screen_name)
    # dumpJSON(api, "~/Desktop")
    batchDelete(api)