# ##################################################################### # Ephemetoot - A script to delete your old toots # Copyright (C) 2018 Hugh Rundle # 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 on Twitter @hughrundle # or email hugh [at] hughrundle [dot] net # ##################################################################### import config import json from mastodon import Mastodon from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone print('Fetching account details...') mastodon = Mastodon( access_token = config.access_token, api_base_url = config.base_url ) 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) mastodon.status_unreblog(toot.reblog) else: print('❌ deleting toot ' + str(toot.id) + ' tooted ' + toot.created_at.strftime("%d %b %Y")) deleted_count += 1 mastodon.status_delete(toot) except: print('🛑 **error** with toot - ' + str(toot.id)) # 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 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: print('Removed ' + str(deleted_count) + ' toots.') # trigger from here account = mastodon.account(user_id) print('Checking ' + str(account.statuses_count) + ' toots...') checkToots(timeline)