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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
require "rubygems" | |
require "twitter" | |
require "json" | |
require "faraday" | |
# things you must configure | |
TWITTER_USER = "your_username" | |
# get these from dev.twitter.com | |
# (you can reuse the keys from langoliers.rb) | |
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key" | |
CONSUMER_SECRET = "your_consumer_secret" | |
OAUTH_TOKEN = "your_oauth_token" | |
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "your_oauth_secret" | |
### you shouldn't have to change anything below this line ### | |
client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config| | |
config.consumer_key = CONSUMER_KEY | |
config.consumer_secret = CONSUMER_SECRET | |
config.access_token = OAUTH_TOKEN | |
config.access_token_secret = OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET | |
end | |
faves = [] | |
oldest_fave_id = 9000000000000000000 | |
got_faves = true | |
puts "" | |
puts "First we collect your faves ✨" | |
while got_faves do | |
begin | |
new_faves = client.favorites(TWITTER_USER,{:count => 200, :max_id => oldest_fave_id}) | |
if (new_faves.length > 0) then | |
oldest_fave_id = new_faves.last.id - 1 # the - 1 is important, because of course it is | |
faves += new_faves | |
puts "Got more faves, including tweet #{new_faves.last.id}..." | |
else | |
puts "No more faves to get!" | |
got_faves = false | |
end | |
rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests => e | |
puts "Hit the rate limit. Pausing for #{e.rate_limit.reset_in} seconds..." | |
sleep e.rate_limit.reset_in | |
retry | |
rescue StandardError => e | |
puts e.inspect | |
exit | |
end | |
end | |
puts "" | |
puts "The great unfaving begins 🙅" | |
faves.each do |fave| | |
puts "Unfavoriting tweet #{fave.id}..." | |
begin | |
client.unfavorite(fave.id) | |
rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests => e | |
puts "Hit the rate limit. Pausing for #{e.rate_limit.reset_in} seconds..." | |
sleep e.rate_limit.reset_in | |
retry | |
rescue StandardError => e | |
puts e.inspect | |
exit | |
end | |
end | |
puts "" | |
puts "Done! 🙌" | |
puts "" |
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