# ##################################################################### # Ephemetoot - A script to delete your old toots # Copyright (C) 2018 Hugh Rundle, 2019 Hugh Rundle & Mark Eaton # Based partially on tweet-deleting script by @flesueur # (https://gist.github.com/flesueur/bcb2d9185b64c5191915d860ad19f23f) # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # You can contact Hugh on Mastodon @hugh@ausglam.space # or email hugh [at] hughrundle [dot] net # ##################################################################### from argparse import ArgumentParser import config import json from mastodon import Mastodon, MastodonError from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone import time parser = ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument( "--test", action="store_true", help="do a test run without deleting any toots" ) options = parser.parse_args() if options.test: print("This is a test run...") print("Fetching account details...") mastodon = Mastodon( access_token=config.access_token, api_base_url=config.base_url, ratelimit_method="wait", ) cutoff_date = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=config.days_to_keep) user_id = mastodon.account_verify_credentials().id timeline = mastodon.account_statuses(user_id, limit=40) def checkToots(timeline, deleted_count=0): for toot in timeline: try: if config.save_pinned and hasattr(toot, "pinned") and toot.pinned: print("📌 skipping pinned toot - " + str(toot.id)) elif toot.id in config.toots_to_save: print("💾 skipping saved toot - " + str(toot.id)) elif cutoff_date > toot.created_at: if hasattr(toot, "reblog") and toot.reblog: print( "👎 unboosting toot " + str(toot.id) + " boosted " + toot.created_at.strftime("%d %b %Y") ) deleted_count += 1 # unreblog the original toot (their toot), not the toot created by boosting (your toot) if not options.test: mastodon.status_unreblog(toot.reblog) else: print( "❌ deleting toot " + str(toot.id) + " tooted " + toot.created_at.strftime("%d %b %Y") ) deleted_count += 1 time.sleep( 2 ) # wait 2 secs between deletes to be a bit nicer to the server if mastodon.ratelimit_remaining == 0: print("Rate limit reached. Waiting for a rate limit reset...") if not options.test: mastodon.status_delete(toot) except MastodonError as e: print("🛑 ERROR deleting toot - " + str(toot.id) + " - " + e.args[3]) print("Waiting 1 minute before re-trying...") time.sleep(60) try: print("Attempting delete again") mastodon.status_delete(toot) time.sleep( 2 ) # wait 2 secs between deletes to be a bit nicer to the server except Exception as e: print("🛑 ERROR deleting toot - " + str(toot.id)) print(e) print("Exiting due to error.") break except KeyboardInterrupt: print("Operation aborted.") break except Exception as e: print("🛑 Unknown ERROR deleting toot - " + str(toot.id)) print(e) # the account_statuses call is paginated with a 40-toot limit # get the id of the last toot to include as 'max_id' in the next API call. # then keep triggering new rounds of checkToots() until there are no more toots to check try: max_id = timeline[-1:][0].id next_batch = mastodon.account_statuses(user_id, limit=40, max_id=max_id) if len(next_batch) > 0: checkToots(next_batch, deleted_count) else: if options.test: print( "Test run. This would have removed " + str(deleted_count) + " toots." ) else: print("Removed " + str(deleted_count) + " toots.") except IndexError: print("No toots found!") # trigger from here if __name__ == "__main__": account = mastodon.account(user_id) print("Checking " + str(account.statuses_count) + " toots...") checkToots(timeline)