twitter-cleanup

Clean-up inactive accounts and bots from your Twitter


Keywords
twitter, bots, social, network, maintenance, social-media, social-network
License
GPL-3.0
Install
pip install twitter-cleanup==0.0.7

Documentation

Twitter Clean-up GitHub Actions: Black workflow GitHub Actions: Tests workflow

🇧🇷 Versão em português do Brasil

Tiny script to clean-up your Twitter account:

  • Removing users that have not been tweeting for a while
  • Soft-blocking bots (blocks and immediately unblocks the account, so it stops following you)

Requirements

  • Python 3.6+
  • Set environment variables with your Twitter API keys and with Botometer API key:
    • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
    • TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
    • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY
    • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
    • BOTOMETER_MASHAPE_KEY

Installing

Install the package with:

$ pip install twitter-cleanup

Usage

Run the CLI with twitter-cleanup --help and follow the on screen instructions.

For example, unfollow everyone that hasn't tweeted in the last 30 days with:

$ twitter-cleanup inactive 30

Or soft-block every bot with:

$ twitter-cleanup bots

Contributing

Please, write and run tests locally, and format your code with Black:

$ python setup.py test
$ black .