tweet-scrubber

Delete your tweets older than X days

How does this work?

Using the Twitter API (V2) we get your tweets older than a certain date (max 50 tweets at a time) and delete them.

OAuth 2.0. is used as an authentication method. To initially obtain a refresh token we first boot a server which authorizes the application and retrieves the refresh token for the first time.

The script scrub.py uses that refresh token to obtain a valid token to delete tweets. A rolling copy of the refresh token is kept.

Setting up

1. Create a new project and application in the Twitter Developer Portal
2. Rename env.example to .env.
3. Copy the API_KEY, API_SECRET and BEARER_TOKEN value over to .env file.
4. Under the application edit the "User Authentication Settings" to
   • Under OAuth 2.0 Authentication make it a Native App.
   • Under App info, make the callback URL http://127.0.0.1:8000/oauth/callback
5. Click save, and copy the CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET over to the .env file.
6. In your terminal, boot the server via make start-server. Install all deps specified in requirements-server.txt before doing so.
7. In your browser, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000 and authorize the application
8. A refresh token will be saved to a file .data/.refresh_token
9. Complete the other missing fields such as TWITTER_HANDLE and DAYS_TO_KEEP
10. Run the scrubber script via make run-docker