vancexu / twitterrecover

Remove all tweets and followings

My twitter account is hacked by someone few days ago. He tweeted 500+ messages in Russian with links, and followed 300+ honeypots.

So I have to remove all my tweets and clean my following list.

First, create an application in Twitter, and use the scripts to get oauth. The script requires requests along with requests-oauthlib.

After you: oauth = get_oauth() you can use

requests.get(url=get_url, auth=oauth)

or

request.post(url=post_url, auth=oauth, data=post_data)

to get and send message using Twitter API

Take me (@vancexu) as an example, the following code remove all my 300+ followings in 1 minutes.

get_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=vancexu'
r = requests.get(url=get_url, auth=oauth)
res = r.json()
ids = res['ids'] # get the ids of who I followed
post_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friendships/destroy.json'
for id in ids:
    # each post request will delete one id I followed
    requests.post(url=post_url, auth=oauth, data={'user_id': str(id)}

The following code remove 200 of my tweets one time

get_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=vancexu&count=500'
r = requests.get(url=get_url, auth=oauth)
res = r.json()
ids = []
# get all tweets' ids
for i in res:
    ids.append(i['id_str'])

post_url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/destroy/'
for i in ids:
    # remove one tweet at a time, according to the given tweet id.
    requests.post(url=post_url+i+'.json', auth=oauth)

reference: http://thomassileo.com/blog/2013/01/25/using-twitter-rest-api-v1-dot-1-with-python/