AutoDetweeter

AutoDetweeter automatically deletes tweets after a set period of time.

Twitter Dev Account

You will need to sign up for a Twitter Dev account and create an app. After creating the app, you will need to generate keys for the app in order to use AutoDetweeter.

Config

Use process env variables to set the following values:

process.env.CONSUMER_KEY
process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET
process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY
process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
process.env.SCREEN_NAME
process.env.TWITTER_DATE_FORMAT
process.env.DELETE_AFTER
process.env.TIME_UNIT

Learn more about using process vars check out Heroku's article.

Time Unit and Delete After

process.env.TIME_UNIT and process.env.DELETE_AFTER are parsed by the moment.js library. Learn more about valid formats here..

process.env.TIME_UNIT is a string
process.env.DELETE_AFTER is an integer represented as a string.

ex: 60days would have TIME_UNIT of 'd' and DELETE_AFTER would be '60'

Twitter Date Format

Currently: ddd MMM DD hh:mm:ss ZZ YYYY

Not sure if that will change, but didn't want to push the code again if it does.

Deploy on Heroku for Free

Best to deploy on Heroku with a scheduler.

License

AutoDetweeter is Public Domain

nathancrank / autodetweeter