如何使用python-twitter删除所有推文？

Question

I'm using python-twitter in my Web Application to post tweets like this:

import twitter
twitter_api = twitter.Api(
    consumer_key="BlahBlahBlah",
    consumer_secret="BlahBlahBlah",
    access_token_key="BlahBlahBlah",
    access_token_secret="BlahBlahBlah",
)
twitter_api.PostUpdate("Hello World")

How do I delete all tweets that have been posted? I can't find documentation how to do it.

Answer 1

twitter_api.PostUpdate("Hello World") should return a Status object. That Status object also contains information about the status which, according to their source is present as an attribute .

twitter_api.destroyStatus is apparently the method they have which wraps around the POST statuses/destroy twitter request. To destroy a status, it takes as an argument the status.id .

So:

status = twitter_api.PostUpdate("hello world")
twitter_api.destroyStatus(status.id)

should be sufficient. There doesn't seem to be a way to bulk-delete content, you'll have to fetch the content first and then delete it status-by-status.

Fetching a sequence (which I guess implies it is iterable) from your timeline is done with twitter_api.GetUserTimeline with a limit of 200 tweets each time. This should allow you to grab tweets, check if the there's a result and if iterate through them and delete them with destroyStatus .

Answer 2

import time
import re
import twitter
try:
    # UCS-4
    HIGHPOINTS = re.compile(u'[\U00010000-\U0010ffff]')
except re.error:
    # UCS-2
    HIGHPOINTS = re.compile(u'[\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFF]')

class TwitterPurger():
    '''
    Purges the a Twitter account of all all tweets and favorites
    '''
    MAX_CALLS_PER_HOUR = 99
    SECONDS_IN_AN_HOUR = 3600
    def __init__(self):
        self.api_call_count = 0

    def increment_or_sleep(self):
        '''
        Increments the call count or sleeps if the max call count per hour
        has been reached
        '''
        self.api_call_count = self.api_call_count + 1
        if self.api_call_count > TwitterPurger.MAX_CALLS_PER_HOUR:
            time.sleep(TwitterPurger.SECONDS_IN_AN_HOUR)
            self.api_call_count = 0

    def delete_everything(self, screen_name, consumer_key,
                          consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret):
        '''
        Deletes all statuses and favorites from a Twitter account
        '''
        api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=consumer_key, consumer_secret=consumer_secret,
                          access_token_key=access_token, access_token_secret=access_token_secret)

        var_time_line_statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=screen_name, include_rts=True)
        self.increment_or_sleep()

        while len(var_time_line_statuses) > 0:
            for status in var_time_line_statuses:
                print('Deleting status {id}: {text}'
                      .format(id=str(status.id),
                              text=HIGHPOINTS.sub('_', status.text)))
                api.DestroyStatus(status.id)
            var_time_line_statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=screen_name, include_rts=True)
            self.increment_or_sleep()

        user_favorites = api.GetFavorites(screen_name=screen_name)
        self.increment_or_sleep()

        while len(user_favorites) > 0:
            for favorite in user_favorites:
                print('Deleting favorite {id}: {text}'
                      .format(id=str(favorite.id),
                              text=HIGHPOINTS.sub('_', favorite.text)))
                api.DestroyFavorite(status=favorite)
            user_favorites = api.GetFavorites(screen_name=screen_name)
            self.increment_or_sleep()

Windows users will need to run the command "chcp 65001" in their console before running the script from the command prompt.