Suggestion to add a Telegram notification

[Hebusing]

First, thank you a million for you're very useful program!!!

I like to know if the script is running ok, so I created this small script that will send a Telegram notification.
Note that you need to create a Telegram Bot (really easy to do!), and get your Bot_Id and Chat_Id.

So I've created a "telegram_main.py" file that I'll use in the "plex_trakt_sync.sh" with the following content:

import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
from main import *

Bot_Id = "ENTER_HERE_YOUR_BOT_ID"
Chat_Id = "ENTER_HERE_YOUR_CHAT_ID"

# Change the output to a string
from io import StringIO
import sys
old_stdout = sys.stdout
sys.stdout = mystdout = StringIO()

                                       
# Run the main function
print("<b>Docker - Plex Trak Sync</b>")
main()                                 
print("<b>Success</b>")
                       
# Send the message     
params = urllib.parse.quote(mystdout.getvalue())
content = urllib.request.urlopen("https://api.telegram.org/bot"+Bot_Id+"/sendMessage?chat_id="+Chat_Id+"&parse_mode=html&text="+params).read()
print(content)                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                 
# Change back the output to standard and display the full output                                                                                                                 
sys.stdout = old_stdout                                                                                                                                                          
print(mystdout.getvalue())

Hope that could help some! ;-)

[glensc]

I wonder does it make sense to implement this via logger:

• https://github.com/parikls/python-telegram-logger

[simonc56]

In my opinion, this is out of scope.
You can already read logs or check exit code to know if the script is running ok.

[simonc56]

@glensc: @twolaw you rejected the issue last time:

• Suggestion to add a Telegram notification #109

@glensc yes, I think this is fancy functionnality and should not be coded inside this project.

The plextraktsync script is supposed to work on a regular basis (every X hours) so in my opinion users need to be notified if it does NOT run correctly.
As far as I'm concerned, I wrote a small shell script last year sending a telegram message if my plextraktsync container exits with error code.

#!/bin/sh

telegram_token='9138xxxxx:ALDc9rlEdfzciPZCNId3xbLRTtOexxxxxxx'
telegram_chat_id='-3211xxxx'
text='PlexTraktSync : Sync failure'
hour=$(date +"%H")

docker start ptsync
sleep 5m
exit_code=$(docker inspect ptsync --format='{{.State.ExitCode}}')
if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ] && [ $hour -gt 8 ] && [ $hour -lt 22 ] ; then
  curl -s -X POST https://api.telegram.org/bot$telegram_token/sendMessage -d chat_id=$telegram_chat_id -d text="$text" > /dev/null
fi

[glensc]

What are the cases of the script not running correctly? And what the actions be then?

I usually (rather most of the time every time) check from Trakt that my play was accounted for:

• https://trakt.tv/users/<trakt_user_handle>/history

also, I've switched to use "watch", which works more instant and stable than periodic syncs. but it doesn't handle collections, so for collections still run it, mostly manually, as now even timestamps are preserved, don't need to run it regularly.

[simonc56]

What are the cases of the script not running correctly? And what the actions be then?

Last time was a problem with Trakt API, they changed their xml structure and the action was to update the script.

I usually (rather most of the time every time) check from Trakt that my play was accounted for:

* `https://trakt.tv/users/<trakt_user_handle>/history`

I mostly use the script to sync Trakt -> Plex because I mostly watch movies on Kodi. I only use Plex on mobile (in train or bus).

also, I've switched to use "watch", which works more instant and stable than periodic syncs. but it doesn't handle collections, so for collections still run it, mostly manually, as now even timestamps are preserved, don't need to run it regularly.

Interesting for a Plex -> Trakt sync only.

/mylife 😄