Twitter bot that automatically sends all your cringey tweets to oblivion.

birdshit_begone.py

import tweepy

from traceback import print_exc
from re import sub


def oauth_login(consumer_key, consumer_secret):
     
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth_url = auth.get_authorization_url()
     
    print(f'\nAuthenticate at: {auth_url}')
    verify_code = input('Enter you verification code here: ') 
    auth.get_access_token(verify_code)
     
    return tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)
 

def batch_delete(api):

    print(f'You are about to permanently delete all {api.verify_credentials().statuses_count} tweets from your account.')
    print('Type 'yes' to carry out this action.')

    allow_delete = input('> ')
    if allow_delete.lower() == 'yes':
        for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items():
            try:
                api.destroy_status(status.id)
                print('Deleted:', status.id)

            except tweepy.TweepError:
                print_exc()
                print('Failed to delete:', status.id)

    print('All deletable tweets have been deleted. Have a nice day!')


def main():
    
    clean_string = lambda input: sub('^ +', '', input)
    consumer_key = clean_string(input('Enter your Twitter consumer key: '))
    consumer_secret = clean_string(input('Enter your Twitter consumer secret: '))
    api = oauth_login(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    
    print(f'\nWelcome {api.me().screen_name}!')
     
    batch_delete(api)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()