[Suggestion] Filter by date about deletetweets HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi, it's next in my to-do list

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Adding an option to filter tweets by date in your existing JavaScript code can be a bit complex because Twitter's API does not provide direct filtering by date. However, you can modify your script to filter tweets by their creation date after fetching them. Here's how you can do that:

1. Add a filterByDate function to filter tweets by date. This function will take the entries (tweet data) as input and return filtered entries based on the date range you specify.

function filterByDate(entries, startDate, endDate) {
  return entries.filter((tweet) => {
    const createdAt = new Date(tweet["legacy"]["created_at"]);
    return createdAt >= startDate && createdAt <= endDate;
  });
}

2. Define your desired date range by creating startDate and endDate objects. For example, to filter tweets from January 1, 2023, to February 28, 2023:

const startDate = new Date("2023-01-01T00:00:00Z");
const endDate = new Date("2023-02-28T23:59:59Z");

3. Modify your main loop to include date filtering. After fetching tweets using fetch_tweets, use the filterByDate function to filter the tweets based on the date range:

entries = await fetch_tweets(next);
entries = filterByDate(entries, startDate, endDate); // Apply date filtering
next = await log_tweets(entries);
await delete_tweets(tweets_to_delete);
tweets_to_delete = [];
await sleep(3000);

With these modifications, your script will fetch tweets and then filter them to include only those that fall within the specified date range. Make sure to adjust the startDate and endDate to match your desired date filtering criteria.

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I don't know if it works, it's just theory. I hope it can help you ;)

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I don't know if it works, it's just theory. I hope it can help you ;)

done, I added explanation how to do it in the readme :)

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