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ph4r5h4d/tweet-eraser

By ph4r5h4d

•Updated almost 5 years ago

Delete your old tweets from your local machine without the need of creating tweeter application.

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ph4r5h4d/tweet-eraser repository overview

⁠tweet-eraser

This small app helps you delete your old tweets

⁠Important notes

  • This app is designed to run from your local machine (laptop, pc or ...). It will not store any information anywhere at all.

    • You are advised to check the source code and build the application yourself if you want to be entirely sure.
    • The builds and Docker images are solely there to make your life easier, but I highly advise you to build the application yourself.

  • This Application is provided as-is. I will not be responsible for any possible problem that may happen to your data and account. I tried my best to make sure it won't harm anything, but Twitter may change its API or put limitations which I'll then try to react and make sure this app will continue to work for as long as possible, But there will be no guarantee.

⁠Requirements

Just download the app from the release page, and you should be good to go.

If you are crazy enough to build the app, you need to install the latest version of the Go and clone the repo, and just run:

go build -o te

And there should be a binary package ready to be used by you or any alien species using the same OS.

⁠Running the app

There are important parameters you need to pass to the app for the app to work correctly.
Let's go over the parameters and see what they are and where you should obtain them.

Command line parameterdescriptionhow to retrieve
--fileThe path to your Twitter archiveJust put it somewhere and then use the absolute path as the value
--authorizationYour account Bearer tokenYou need to retrieve it from a network request from your browser
--authTokenYour account auth tokenYou need to retrieve it from your Twitter cookie (auth_token)
--csrfTokenYour session CSRF tokenYou need to retrieve it from your Twitter cookie (ct0)
--offsetHow many days to preserve your tweets-

A sample would be like the following:

./te --file=twitter.zip --offset=730 --authorizaion=YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN --authToken=YOUR_COOKIE_AUTH_TOKEN --csrfToken=YOUR_COOKIE_CSRF_TOKEN

Look at the --offset=730, this means all tweets older than 730 days (2 years) will be deleted.

⁠Using the Docker image

First, pull the image:

docker pull ph4r5h4d/tweet-eraser:latest

Well, put the file in a directory you want to run the command from and do the following:

docker run -v $(pwd)/YOURT_BACKUP.ZIP:/app/twitter.zip tweet-eraser:latest --file=twitter.zip --offset=730 --authorizaion=YOUR_BEARER_TOKEN --authToken=YOUR_COOKIE_AUTH_TOKEN --csrfToken=YOUR_COOKIE_CSRF_TOKEN

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almost 5 years ago

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