detweet

Have some spam on your profile? Maybe an association with someone you want to get rid of? detweet allows you to delete tweets before or after a specific date that match a given regular expression.

Usage

usage: detweet.py [-h] --csv CSV [--dry] [--before BEFORE] [--after AFTER]
                  pattern [pattern ...]

Delete tweets en masse

positional arguments:
  pattern          regular expressions to match

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --csv CSV        the path to your tweets.csv file located in your twitter
                   archive
  --dry            do a dry run
  --before BEFORE  match tweets before this date (YYYY-M-D)
  --after AFTER    match tweets after this date (YYYY-M-D)

Installation

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/landaire/detweet.git
2. Create a python3 virtualenv: virtualenv -p python3 venv
3. Activate the virtualenv: source bin/activate
4. Install the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up your API credentials

1. Create an application for use with this script (https://dev.twitter.com/apps)
2. Get your client token/secret and access token/token secret
3. Create a credentials file containing:

export CONSUMER_KEY=''
export CONSUMER_SECRET=''
export ACCESS_TOKEN=''
export ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=''

Replace the empty strings with their respective values.

In your terminal run:

source credentials

Request your twitter archive

Go to your profile settings on twitter.com and request your twitter archive. This will contain the tweets.csv file used by detweet.

Example run

$ ./detweet.py --csv ~/Downloads/tweeter_archive/tweets.csv --before '2014-06-01' 'some(thing)?' 'maybe a swear here'