Nuke My Tweets

nuke_my_tweets.py

#!/bin/python3
"""
A python script to nuke tweets in your account using tweet history

@requirements: tweepy, python-dotenv
"""
from os import getenv
from os.path import join, dirname
from dotenv import load_dotenv

import tweepy
import csv

# Load env file
dotenv_path = join(dirname(__file__), '.env')
load_dotenv(dotenv_path)

# Access env variables
consumer_key = getenv('CONSUMER_KEY')
consumer_secret = getenv('CONSUMER_SECRET')
access_token = getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN')
access_token_secret = getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')
tweets_to_keep = getenv('TWEETS_TO_KEEP').split(',')
tweets_csv = getenv('PATH_TO_TWEETS')

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

print('OAuth request sent')
api = tweepy.API(auth)

print('OAuth successful, now loading tweets archive')
with open(tweets_csv, 'r') as f:
  reader = csv.reader(f)

  # Skip header
  next(reader, None)

  # Convert CSV to list
  tweets_list = list(reader)

print('Nuking...')
for tweet in tweets_list:
    # tweet[0] is the tweet_id column
    tweet_id = tweet[0]

    if (tweet_id in tweets_to_keep):
        # Do not delete tweet
        print('[ 0 ] tweet with id %s' %(tweet_id))
    else:
        # Delete the tweet
        api.destroy_status(tweet_id)
        print('[ - ] tweet with id %s' %(tweet_id))

print('Mission complete!')