untweet

A little command line utility that destroys likes and tweets.

Install

Binaries

Check out the latest
release for macOS
and Linux binaries.

Go

go get -u github.com/imwally/untweet/cmd/untweet

Requirements

To communicate with Twitter’s API you will need the following:

• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

Which means you will need to create an app through Twitter’s developer
portal.

How to Use

The 4 keys from above are required for every call to
untweet. Environment variables are also supported:

TWITTER_API_KEY
TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET
TWITTER_API_TOKEN
TWITTER_API_TOKEN_SECRET

or use command line flags:

  -key string
        Twitter API Consumer Key
  -key-secret string
        Twitter API Secret Key
  -token string
        Twitter API Access Token
  -token-secret string
        Twitter API Access Token Secret

Usage

USAGE:
    untweet command [command options]
COMMAND:
    dump         Dump likes or tweets
    tweets       Destroy tweets
    likes        Destroy likes
OPTIONS:
    Use -h on each command to view options

Backup Before You Destroy

Dump all likes or tweets to stdout in json format:

$ untweet dump -likes

$ untweet dump -tweets

Other Useful Information

Keep likes of tweets from people you follow:

$ untweet likes -keep-following

Destroy tweets older than a certain time (from now):

1 week

$ untweet tweets -older 168h

48 hours

$ untweet tweets -older 48h

Checkout Go’s time package for more valid duration strings.