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		foodstances on June 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adventures in Deleting Tweets If you're doing all the browser scraping, wouldn't it have been easier to just automate your browser clicking the delete/unlike button itself? I've done this in the past with Selenium, sometimes needing GreaseMonkey.

loeber on June 3, 2018 [–]

You'd still want to collect all the Tweet IDs such that you can archive them (download the JSON blobs).

robk on June 3, 2018 | [–]

The Id is easily scraped as well though

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