Get notified on Telegram when a user is transcoding

notify_transcoding_telegram.py

# Written by pmow/Hellowlol
# Upload to Gist by JonnyWong16

# For this video transcode alert script, you should select the script for action types where it would be useful: 
# Playback Start and Playback Resume, for example. 
# Under Settings > Notifications > Scripts, set the parameters that should get passed to the script.

import sys
import requests

# sys.argv[1] is the first argument 
# sys.argv[2] is the second argument etc

USERID = '<numeric ID from @IDBot>'
KEY= '<the API key from @BotFather>'
TIMEOUT= 10
URL = 'https://api.telegram.org/bot$KEY/sendMessage'
TEXT = 'Crap, your server is transcoding something: ! Go check on it, noob!'
url = URL + chat_id=%s&disable_web_page_preview=1&text=%s % (KEY, TEXT)
if sys.argv[1] != 'Direct Play' and sys.arv[1] != 'Copy':
    requests.get(url, timeout=timeout)