Cloud Functions script to delete old tweets.

delete_old_tweets.py

import datetime
import logging
import os

from google.cloud import logging as cloud_logging
import tweepy

THRESHOLD_DAYS = 3
BATCH_SIZE = 25


def is_local_run() -> bool:
    return os.environ.get("FUNCTION_TARGET") is None


def setup() -> None:
    if not is_local_run():
        cloud_logging.Client().setup_logging()

    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)


def make_twitter_client() -> tweepy.Client:
    return tweepy.Client(
        consumer_key=os.environ["TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY"],
        consumer_secret=os.environ["TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET"],
        access_token=os.environ["TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN"],
        access_token_secret=os.environ["TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"],
    )


def main(event, content) -> None:
    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

    client = make_twitter_client()
    my_id = client.get_me().data.id
    threshold = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=THRESHOLD_DAYS)

    tweets = client.get_users_tweets(
        my_id,
        max_results=BATCH_SIZE,
        end_time=threshold,
        tweet_fields=["created_at"],
        user_auth=True,
    ).data

    if tweets:
        for tweet in tweets:
            logger.info(f"Delete: id={tweet.id}, created_at={tweet.created_at}")
            client.delete_tweet(tweet.id)
    else:
        logger.info("No tweet to delete.")

        
setup()

if is_local_run():
    main(None, None)