alhuelamo / tweet-sweeper

Turns Twitter into an ephemeral messaging service.

tweet-sweeper

This is a toy Rust CLI application whose main goal is to turn Twitter into an ephemeral message board platform. tweet-sweeper deletes any tweet created before a certain number of days.

Requirements

• Rust toolchain
• A Twitter Developers account and an Application.

Usage

First, rename the file template.configuration.toml to configuration.toml and fill-in the placeholders.

IMPORTANT: This app assumes that the account you want to delete tweets from is the same account used to create the Twitter App in the Twitter Developers Portal.

[api.app]
key = "my-twitter-app-key"
secret = "my-twitter-app-secret"

[api.user]
token = "my-twitter-user-token"
token_secret = "my-twitter-user-secret"
display_name = "my-twitter-display-name"

[app]
delete_days = 15

Keys are found in the "Keys and tokens" section of your Twitter Application:

Setting app.delete_days option will tell tweet-sweeper remove all those tweets prior to delete_days days from the execution date.

Once configured, just run

cargo run

tweet-sweeper uses the env_logger crate, hence you can enable logs by setting the environment variable RUST_LOG. See the env_logger documentation for further information.