mikemcquaid / twitterdelete

💀 Deleted your old, unpopular tweets (archived)

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twitterdelete's Issues

Install fails

Generates error after bundle install.

"An error occurred while installing unf_ext (0.0.7.4), and Bundler
cannot continue.
Make sure that gem install unf_ext -v '0.0.7.4' succeeds before bundling."

.env file not working

Hi there, thanks for making this open source and sorry this is probably a dumb question.

I put all my api keys into a file called 'secrets.env' in the twitterdelete folder but when i'm running ./twitter_delete.rb --user irl i get environment variable must be set

Should my keys be in plaintext or have quotes around them like normal ruby strings? i tried both and neither worked. Some help with implementation would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

Deprecated gem warning

Ever time I run this (in a macOS terminal) I get the following warning:

[DEPRECATION] This gem has been renamed to optimist and will no longer be supported. Please switch to optimist as soon as possible.

I assume something simply needs to be renamed, but it doesn't actually say which gem got renamed... haha.

Dies with a vast number of Tweets.

Had this happen every time so far. I have a stupidly large number of tweets I want to be rid of, so that's perhaps the cause of the issue. Haven't tried other scripts that use the csv file to delete long-since gone-from-the-maximum-visible-limit tweets, so this might not be entirely the fault of the script. Tried with the system Ruby without luck as well.

I was using another tool before yours', but it couldn't delete past the visible-limit, and it wasn't as up-to-date on the API calls as this one, so I switched.

bundle exec ./twitter_delete.rb --user Dom_T4 --csv tweets.csv --force
...

==> Deleting 57439 tweets
/usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/request.rb:37:in `rescue in perform': execution expired (Twitter::Error)
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/request.rb:32:in `perform'
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:51:in `perform_request'
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:73:in `perform_request_with_object'
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:65:in `perform_post_with_object'
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/tweets.rb:100:in `block in destroy_status'
    from /usr/local/var/rbenv/versions/2.2.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/utils.rb:39:in `block (2 levels) in pmap'

Request: Save specific tweet IDs

Making a cheeky request for a feature that allows people to not delete specific tweet IDs. Tried coding something myself, but had little progress so far. My Ruby, as we both know, still sucks 😢. I'll keep reading the Twitter gem documentation and see if I can come up with something that works with the script though.

Support tweet.js

Twitter has started sending a fuller archive, with tweets in a tweet.js file instead of tweets.csv. It's a plain JS object so probably pretty simple to convert to OpenStruct or even regex it.

Old tweets causing error

I'm getting odd errors, presumably from old Tweets the API isn't returning.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/response/raise_error.rb:15:in `on_complete': No status found with that ID. (Twitter::Error::NotFound)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/response.rb:9:in `block in call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/response.rb:57:in `on_complete'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/response.rb:8:in `call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/request/url_encoded.rb:15:in `call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/request/multipart.rb:14:in `call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/request/multipart_with_file.rb:17:in `call'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/rack_builder.rb:139:in `build_response'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/connection.rb:377:in `run_request'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/faraday-0.9.1/lib/faraday/connection.rb:177:in `post'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/request.rb:33:in `perform'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:51:in `perform_request'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:73:in `perform_request_with_object'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:151:in `block in parallel_objects_from_response'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/twitter-5.14.0/lib/twitter/utils.rb:39:in `block (2 levels) in pmap'

As a fix (and as a feature I like) I also added a parameter to not delete my oldest tweets (as I like having the very old ones there just to brag my account is in the first handful of ones created)
https://github.com/bobbysteel/TwitterDelete/blob/master/twitter_delete.rb

Incorrect tweet count

When processing an archive file, TwitterDelete comes up with an incorrect tweet count. I think what's happening is tweets from the archive and from the API are being double-counted. The number being reported is approximately 3,000 more than my archive even has.

I'll investigate more, but wanted to file the issue so it wouldn't be lost.