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Delete old tweets based on twitter archive
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| #!/bin/python3 | |
| # Fork of https://gist.github.com/davej/113241 | |
| # Requirements: | |
| # - twitter API credentials (replace the correponding variables) | |
| # - tweet.js file you get by extracting your twitter archive zip file (located in data/) | |
| # License : Unlicense http://unlicense.org/ | |
| import tweepy | |
| import pytz | |
| import json | |
| from datetime import datetime, timedelta | |
| from dateutil import parser | |
| consumer_key = '' | |
| consumer_secret = '' | |
| access_token = '' | |
| access_token_secret = '' | |
| days_to_keep = 365 #This will keep the last year's worth of tweets, unless you change it | |
| auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
| auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) | |
| api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
| utc = pytz.UTC | |
| cutoff_date = utc.localize(datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days_to_keep)) | |
| fp = open("tweet.js","r") | |
| fp.seek(25) # skip to '[' which is the beginning of the json part | |
| myjson = json.load(fp) | |
| for i in range(len(myjson)): | |
| parsed_date = parser.parse(myjson[i]['tweet']['created_at']) | |
| # print(parsed_date) | |
| if parsed_date < cutoff_date: | |
| # beware, this operation is irreversible | |
| try: | |
| print("Destroying tweet %s" % myjson[i]['tweet']['id_str']) | |
| api.destroy_status(myjson[i]['tweet']['id_str']) | |
| except Exception as e: | |
| print("There was an exception: %s." % e) | |
| pass |
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