autodelete-me 🧹

Reduce your digital footprint and auto delete your online profiles.

• Protect your privacy
• Reduce your digital footprint
• Don't let your old posts come back to haunt you

NOTE 🚧 This product is still in development. Use at your own risk. Deleting posts is irreversible.

Getting Started

Twitter

1. Sign up and create a project on the Twitter Developer Portal
2. Create a new Project and App (select any environment). Make sure to save your API keys!
3. Set up 'User authentication settings'
   • App Permissions: Read and Write
   • Type of App: Confidential
   • Enter any Callback URI and Website URL (e.g. this Github repo). We're not using this.
   • No need to save Client Id & Secret. We're not using this.
4. Go to your 'Keys and Tokens' > Generate Access Token & Secret
5. go to Keys and tokens to (re-)generate Access Token and Secret. Make sure to save these keys!
6. Make sure that after generation your Access Token & Secret are created with read and write permissions
7. Save the keys to your .env file

NOTE: The App runs on the Twitter account that you've used to create the developer account & API keys.

Reddit

1. Create an App on Reddit App Preferences
2. Select 'script' as the type of app and use any redirect uri (e.g. this Github repo). We're not using this.
3. Create App
4. Save the keys to your .env file.
   • REDDIT_CLIENT_ID is just below your App name and personal use script
   • REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET is the created secret
5. Add your personal credentials to your .env file
   • REDDIT_USERNAME is your Reddit username
   • REDDIT_PASSWORD is your Reddit password

NOTE 🚨 MAKE SURE TO NEVER SUBMIT YOUR .env OR ANY CREDENTIALS TO GITHUB.

Configure

Your .env should be placed in the root of this project and contain the following keys depending on which platforms you'd like to run.

TWITTER_API_KEY=''
TWITTER_API_SECRET=''
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=''
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=''

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=''
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=''
REDDIT_USERNAME=''
REDDIT_PASSWORD=''

Settings

The root of this project contains a settings file to configure each provider.

Manual run

You can run a purge manually using the following command.

yarn start

Cron Job

The cron job in .github/workflows will automatically run on daily basis. Make sure to configure repository secrets with the same variables as your .env file.

Archive

CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED

The Twitter API only returns the last 3200 tweets. This is likely insufficient for most accounts. In order to delete historical tweets, you need to download an archive of your data.

This might take up to 24 hours. Once you have your data, add it to the root of this project with the name archive.zip.

Note 🚨 Make sure you rename your archive to archive.zip or exclude it in .gitignore.

You can run a full archive purge using the following command.

yarn start:archive