cleanup-friendica

This is a small cleanup script for Friendica node admins to help with forgotten or dead accounts.

The script does two things:

1. delete all users after a week that haven't logged in at all and didn't post anything (filter weeks and never.*never)
2. search for accounts that haven't logged in for 6 months, send them a reminder mail and delete accounts that haven't logged within 7 months

Installation

• save the script to your disk where your webserver user or the user running Friendica can access it (e.g. not under /root, maybe /usr/local/bin)
• make the script executable (e.g. chown www-data:www-data /path/to/cleanup_friendica.sh && chmod ug+rx /path/to/cleanup_friendica.sh)
• create a crontab to execute the script, e.g.: 16 9 2,15 * * /usr/local/bin/cleanup_friendica.sh to execute the script every two weeks
• for the first 2 runs you should have the mail text the same and keep the deleting of the user commented out (line 54 in initial commit). After the first 2 runs you should change the first mail text to send out a mail that the account has been deleted because of inactivity and not reacting to the prior sent mails.
• change the variables at the begin of the script to your site settings.

Usage

Usage:
 --dry-run      : make a dry-run, no deletion will be done, no mails are sent.
 --dowhatimean  : add this option if you really want to delete users.

Other useful tips

• the script expects the output of bin/console to be in LANG=en_US.UTF-8 or en
• you can change the mail command from -b ${siteadmin} -- ${usermail} to -- ${siteadmin} and comment out all lines with bin/console user delete statement for testing runs
• before putting this script into production you may want to inform your users via the notify_all addon of the upcoming changes/deletions.

Reference to Friendica issue

There is a feature request to render in Friendica Github issue tracker to deprecate this script.

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