Script to selectively delete tweets and favs

This script deletes all tweets and/or favs of a Twitter account. I borrowed heavily from this post for this script.

Requirements

• A Twitter developer account. You can apply for one here.
• A file named keys.py containing the credentials of your developer account:

API_KEY='XXXXXXXXX'
API_SECRET='XXXXXXXXXX'
ACCESS_TOKEN='XXXXXXXX'
ACCESS_SECRET='XXXXXXXXXXX'

• The tweepy python library.

Use

Add the ID of any tweet you'd like to keep to the keep_tweets.py file like this:

TWEET_IDS=[1292155096923504640, 1354904079940558848]

The script has the following arguments:

• -t: Delete tweets
• -f: Delete favorites
• -d: Date in yyyy-mm-dd format. The script will not delete all tweets and/or favs that were created at or after that date (if no date is specified the script will delete all tweets and favs)
• -v: Verbose mode

For example, if you want to delete all tweets and favorites created before Jan 1st, 2021, write in the command line:

python delete_tweets.py -t -f -d 2021-01-01