https://github.com/hbish/delete-old-tweets

nodejs script to delete old tweets
https://github.com/hbish/delete-old-tweets

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nodejs script to delete old tweets

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hbish/delete-old-tweets
• Owner: hbish
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-09-10T14:24:11.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-21T02:59:48.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-08T18:26:50.789Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: delete-old-tweets, delete-tweets, old-tweets, tweets, twitter, twitter-data
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 48.8 KB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# delete-old-tweets

A simple utility script that deletes your old tweets based on a given cut off

date.

Motivation for creating this utility is on my [blog post](https://hbish.com/deleting-old-tweets/).

If you found this to be useful, please give it a star.

## 🛆 Read before proceeding

Due to twitter's API

[rate limit](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-limits),

by default, a limit of 100 deletions has been set when you execute the script. There is also

a hard limit of 2400 updates to tweets per day. _Please be aware of the

rate limits, otherwise your account may be suspended._

## Installation

- Tested on NodeJs v18.x

- `npm install`

## Quick Start

- Request your twitter data from Twitter

  [(link)](https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data). You will

  receive an email in your email with a download link to your data, this

  may take a some time especially if you have a lot of twitter data.

- You need a valid Twitter developer credentials in the form of a set of

  consumer and access tokens/keys [(link)](https://apps.twitter.com/).

  You will also need to grant write permission to your application.

- Extract your twitter data and copy `data/tweets.js` into the scripts

  working directory

- Copy the sample `.env` file `cp .env.sample .env`

- Edit the `.env` file and replace the placeholders with your twitter

  app tokens/keys obtained earlier

  ```

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=**your key**

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=**your secret**

  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=**your token key**

  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=**your token secret**

  ```

- Execute the script (below will delete 100 tweets before 2011-01-01)

  - `node index.js -d 2011-01-01`

    - `-d` - cutoff date in yyyy-mm-dd format

    - `-n` - number of tweets to delete (optional, default to 100)

- IDs of deleted tweets will be written to `deleted.js`

- Rerun the script to continue the next batch of tweets

To see all of the scripts options, please run `node index.js -h`

## Contributors

Originally authored by [@hbish](http://github.com/hbish)

Special thanks to

[Twitter for Node.js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/twitter) for the

awesome twitter client.