tidytwitter 0.2.0

Delete your old tweets and favorites using the Twitter API

tidytwitter

Delete your old tweets and favorites using the Twitter API.

tidytwitter tweets

deletes all of your tweets that are older than --days (default: 60) except those that you have favorited yourself or have more than --favorite-threshold favorites (default: 20).

tidytwitter favorites

deletes all of your favorties that are older than --days (default: 60) except those that are of your own tweets.

tidytwitter both

deletes both tweets and favorites.

See tidytwitter --help, tidytwitter tweets --help and tidytwitter favorites --help for more.

The idea to preserve self-favorited tweets is stolen with thanks from a script by Chris Albon.

Installation

pip install tidytwitter

Create a new project in your Twitter developer account and get the key, secret, access token and access token secret.

You can either export those as environment variables:

export TIDYTWITTER_API_KEY="your_api_key"
export TIDYTWITTER_API_SECRET="your_api_secret"
export TIDYTWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="your_access_token"
export TIDYTWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="your_access_token_secret"

or pass them as command line options (--api-key, etc., see --help).

Shell completion

You can optionally enable shell completion by running the appropriate command for your shell:

eval "$(_TIDYTWITTER_COMPLETE=bash_source tidytwitter)" >> ~/.bashrc # bash
eval "$(_TIDYTWITTER_COMPLETE=zsh_source tidytwitter)" >> ~/.zshrc  # zsh
_TIDYTWITTER_COMPLETE=fish_source foo-bar > ~/.config/fish/completions/tidytwitter.fish  # fish

Automation with Github

See tidytwitter-cron.