TweetDelete

Small script to delete old tweets from your timeline.

Requirements

• python-twitter 3.1 (pip install python-twitter)
• API keys from Twitter

Configuration

Your configuration should be located at ~/.tweetdelete.conf. At a minimum it will need to contain the [api] section.

[api]
consumer_key: ...
consumer_secret: ...
access_token_key: ...
access_token_secret: ...

[general]
max_tweet_age: 180
log_file: ~/.local/var/log/tweetdelete.log
log_format: %(asctime): %(name)s %(levelname)s %(message)s

• max_tweet_age: The maximum age of your tweets in days. Tweets older than this will be deleted.
• log_file: Path to file where TweetDelete will log its actions. If the path doesn't already exist, TweetDelete will attempt to create it.
• log_format: How the data should be logged. The string should contain valid logging.LogRecord attributes.

Running

You should just be able to execute tweetdelete.py if you have met the above requirements and configuration. If you're running the script from within a VirtualEnv a small shell script is provided to aid with easily running tweetdelete.py from your crontab.

Todo

• Dry-run mode to display what would have been deleted.