Since you cant delete your account here, and deleting posts manually one by one is a pain, i made a python script to automatically delete all posts that can be deleted, and to edit those which can only be edited (changes subject and message to "x")
I couldnt find any terms of service for this website, so not sure if this is even allowed.
RequirementsPython
Chrome (you can edit the script yourself to change browser if you want)
Selenium installed in python
How to useAfter installing selenium, simply run the python script, it will ask you how many pages of posts your account has (Profile -> Show Posts -> Highest page number available)
just enter the number you see in your profile and then hit enter. It will then open up a chrome browser with the login page for bitcointalk open, you will have 60 seconds to log in and when the 60 seconds are up, the script will start deleting and editing posts from your profile.
Note: When logging in, you should set number of minutes to be logged in to a higher number if you have many posts
WARNINGThis should be obvious, but running this script will try to delete as many of your posts as it can, so dont run it if you dont want that..
Code:
https://github.com/SwayStar123/del_btctalk_postsimport re
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
def extract_ids_from_url(post_url):
# Splitting the URL based on "?"
parameters = post_url.split('?')[1]
# Extracting topic and msg IDs from the parameters
topic_id = parameters.split('.msg')[0].split('topic=')[1]
msg_id = parameters.split('.msg')[1].split('#')[0]
return topic_id, msg_id
def delete_post(browser, post_url, sesc_token):
topic_id, msg_id = extract_ids_from_url(post_url)
# Constructing the delete URL
delete_url = f"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=deletemsg;topic={topic_id}.0;msg={msg_id};sesc={sesc_token}"
browser.get(delete_url)
time.sleep(1)
if browser.current_url == f"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic={topic_id}.0":
return True
else:
return False
def edit_post(browser, post_url, sesc_token):
topic_id, msg_id = extract_ids_from_url(post_url)
# Navigate to edit URL
edit_url = f"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=post;msg={msg_id};topic={topic_id}.0;sesc={sesc_token}"
browser.get(edit_url)
try:
# Change the subject to "x"
subject_elem = WebDriverWait(browser, 2).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'subject'))
)
subject_elem.clear()
subject_elem.send_keys('x')
# Change the message content to "x"
message_elem = WebDriverWait(browser, 2).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'message'))
)
message_elem.clear()
message_elem.send_keys('x')
# Click the Save button
save_button = WebDriverWait(browser, 2).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'post'))
)
save_button.click()
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error editing post: {e}")
time.sleep(0.5) # Introduce a delay before processing the next post or action
def scrape_post_urls(browser, start):
browser.get(BASE_URL + str(start))
post_urls = []
try:
# Target <a> elements within <td> of class 'middletext' and get the third (last) link
post_elements = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.XPATH, '//td[@class="middletext"]/a[3]'))
)
for post_element in post_elements:
post_urls.append(post_element.get_attribute("href"))
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error scraping post URLs at start={start}: {e}")
return post_urls
def extract_sesc_token(browser):
# Go to the homepage or any page where the logout link is visible
browser.get("https://bitcointalk.org/index.php")
try:
# Locate the logout link and extract the sesc token from its href attribute
logout_link = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//a[contains(@href, "action=logout")]'))
)
href = logout_link.get_attribute('href')
sesc_token = href.split('sesc=')[1]
return sesc_token
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error extracting sesc token: {e}")
return None
def extract_user_id(browser):
# Navigate to main profile page
browser.get('https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile')
try:
# Extracting the URL of the 'Account Related Settings' link
account_related_settings_url = WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(
EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//a[contains(text(), "Account Related Settings")]'))
).get_attribute('href')
# Extracting the user ID from the URL
user_id = re.search(r'u=(\d+)', account_related_settings_url).group(1)
return user_id
except (TimeoutException, AttributeError):
print("Failed to extract user ID.")
return None
if __name__ == '__main__':
num_pages = int(input("How many pages of posts do you have in your profile?: "))
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
# Navigate to login page or homepage
browser.get("https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=login")
print("Please login manually within the next 60 seconds...")
time.sleep(60) # Give 60 seconds for manual login
# Extract user ID
user_id = extract_user_id(browser)
if not user_id:
print("Failed to extract user ID.")
browser.quit()
exit()
BASE_URL = f'https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u={user_id};sa=showPosts;start='
sesc_token = extract_sesc_token(browser)
if sesc_token:
print(f"Extracted sesc token: {sesc_token}")
# Continue with rest of your logic, e.g., scraping post URLs and deleting posts
all_post_urls = []
for start in range(0, num_pages*20, 20):
all_post_urls.extend(scrape_post_urls(browser, start))
for post_url in all_post_urls:
res = delete_post(browser, post_url, sesc_token)
if res == True:
continue
else:
edit_post(browser, post_url, sesc_token)
else:
print("Failed to extract sesc token.")
browser.quit()
