twitter-deleter

A simple script to delete tweets.

Getting started

Make sure to have ruby installed (you can use rvm), and then install dependencies with bundler:

rvm install 2.4.0
rvm use 2.4.0
gem install bundler:2.0.1
bundle install

Set the required environment variables in .env containing your twitter API credentials:

• TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=

• TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=

• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=

• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=

• USERNAME=

• DELETE_RETWEETS=

• RELATIVE_DAYS=

• DRY_RUN=

You can use the sample env file for reference:

cp .env.sample .env

You can get Twitter API credentials from the Twitter apps page.

Additional info on generating acess tokens in this gist.

Run the script:

$ ruby deleter.rb

Using Docker

docker build -f Dockerfile -t twitter-deleter .
docker run --env-file=.env twitter-deleter

License

MIT