Deletuips: just another bulk tweet deletion tool using requested Twitter archive

deletuips.py

#!/bin/python3
#
# Requirements:
#     - Python 3
#     - tweepy Python library (pip install tweepy)
#     - Twitter API keys and secrets (from https://developer.twitter.com/)
#
# Instructions:
#     - Request and download your Twitter archive (from https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data)
#     - Rename downloaded zip file to twitter-archive.zip
#     - Put this script and twitter-archive.zip on the same directory
#     - Replace (****) with your Twitter API keys and secrets
#     - Check how many days from today to the past you want to keep. Default: 365 days (that's one year, most of the time)
#     - Run this script (python deletuips.py)
#     - After finished keep API keys, secrets and archive safe, or delete everything.
#     - That's all.

#  License : Unlicense http://unlicense.org/

import json
import shutil
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone

import tweepy
from zipfile import ZipFile

consumer_key = '****************'
consumer_secret = '****************'
access_token = '****************'
access_token_secret = '****************'

days_to_keep = 365
tweets_file = 'tmp-archive/data/tweet.js'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

cutoff_date = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=days_to_keep)

def get_confirmation():
    # raw_input returns the empty string for "enter"
    yes = {'yes', 'y', 'ye'}
    no = {'no', 'n', ''}

    choice = input().lower()

    if choice in yes:
       return True
    elif choice in no:
       return False
    else:
       sys.stdout.write("Please respond with 'yes' or 'no'")

print('WARNING: This script will delete ALL tweets until {}. Are you REALLY sure? (yes/no)'.format(cutoff_date))

if not get_confirmation():
    print('Confirmation denied. NO DELETED TWEETS. Bye.')
    exit()

zip_name = 'twitter-archive.zip'

zip_obj = ZipFile(zip_name, 'r')
zip_obj.extractall('tmp-archive')

## Edit file
file_obj = open(tweets_file, "r")
data = file_obj.read()
file_obj.close()

data = data[25:]
file_obj = open(tweets_file, "w")
file_obj.write(data)
file_obj.close()

fp = open(tweets_file,"r")
json_tweets = json.load(fp)

for item in json_tweets:
    tweet = item['tweet']
    d = datetime.strptime(tweet['created_at'], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y")

    if d < cutoff_date:
        print(tweet['created_at'] + " " + tweet['id_str'])
        try:
            api.destroy_status(tweet['id_str'])
        except:
            pass

shutil.rmtree('tmp-archive')