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twitter-scrub

(c) 2019 Sam Caldwell. MIT License.

Purpose

This utility will scrub your Twitter timeline of anything and everything.

Warning

  • Download your twitter history first from their site.
  • THIS IS IRREVOCABLE AND IRREVERSIBLE.

Getting Started

To setup the tool, you'll need to...

  1. Create a twitter development account (https://developer.twitter.com/).
  2. Then register your app (https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps/).
  3. Clone the github repo: git@github.com:sam-caldwell/twitter-scrub.git
  4. Open a terminal and navigate into the local repo.
  5. Install python3.

Use the tool...

Using your key and secret from the registered app in your twitter developer account, run the scrub.py script and follow it's prompts.

python3 scrub.py -h
usage: scrub.py [-h] [--noop] [--timeline] [--dms] --key KEY --secret SECRET

scrub a given twitter account's posts

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --noop           No operation flag (for dry runs).
  --timeline       Purge timeline
  --dms            Purge direct messages
  --key KEY        Consumer Key
  --secret SECRET  Consumer secret