A small script to delete all tweets from your twitter stream

DeleteTweets.py

# First download the twitter archive
# Get API_KEY and API_SECRET from developer.twitter.com

import os
import json
import glob

import base64
import requests
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session

API_KEY = 'XXX'
API_SECRET = 'XXX'

# For some reason, twitter only allowed me to do a PIN based oAuth
# Hence callback_uri='oob'
twitter = OAuth1Session(client_key=API_KEY,
                        client_secret=API_SECRET,
                        callback_uri='oob')

request_token_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token'
authorization_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize'
access_token_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token'

twitter.fetch_request_token(request_token_url)

twitter.authorization_url(authorization_url)

# Open the resulting URL in the browser and copy-paste the token displayed, in the call below

resp = twitter.post('https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token', data={'oauth_verifier':'<TOKEN>'}).text

twitter.parse_authorization_response('https://127.0.0.1/callback?%s' % resp)

# Verify the oAuth worked
twitter.get('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json', params={'count':100, 'include_rts': True}).json()

# Download your twitter archive from Twitter

all_ids = []
files = glob.glob('~/t_archive/tweets/*.js')
for name in files:
    data = json.loads(open(name).read().split('= \n')[1])
    for t in data:
        all_ids.append(t['id'])
all_ids.sort()

success_deleted = 0
already_delted = 0
errors = []

for id in all_ids:
    url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/destroy/%s.json' % id
    resp = twitter.post(url)
    if resp.status_code == 200:
        success_deleted =+ 1
    elif resp.status_code == 404:
        already_deleted =+ 1
    else:
        errors.append(resp.text)

print success_deleted
print already_delted
print errors