TweetSnipper

Deletes Tweets older than hashtag specified duration, in the form of /#\d+[hmd]/.

Note: Does not work when deployed on Heroku.

Installation

1. Clone repository.

    $ git clone https://github.com/iphoting/TweetSnipper
    $ cd TweetSnipper
   

2. Create a Twitter API application here.

3. Create a .env file within the clone with the following details:

    TWITTER_USERNAME="username"
    CONSUMER_KEY="API_key..."
    CONSUMER_SECRET="API_secret..."
    ACCESS_TOKEN="12345-xxyyy"
    ACCESS_SECRET="09384xxyy"
   

4. Use bundler to fetch dependencies.

    $ bundle install
   

5. Run the app.

    $ ruby tweetsnipper.rb
   

6. Add the app to cron or launchd.