Sends Pokémon stickers for testing pokealarm

test-send.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# drop into alarms/Telegram/ & run in that directory
import telepot
import json
import os
import sys
import time

target_chat = "TELEGRAM_CHAT-ID"
bot_id = "TELEGRAM_BOT_ID"

def handle(msg):
        chat_id = msg['chat']['id']
        if chat_id == target_chat:
                if msg['sticker']:
                        print "file_id: {}".format(msg['sticker']['file_id'])

bot = telepot.Bot(bot_id)
bot.message_loop(handle)
print 'listening...'

bot.sendMessage(target_chat, "Image will be above name...")

# get names of pokemon from locale file
with open(os.path.abspath('../../locales/pokemon.en.json')) as file:
        namelist = json.load(file)

def use_pyversion():
        #sourcing data from python file (work in progress)
        import telegram_stickers
        return telegram_stickers.stickerlist

def use_json():
        # get file_id of pokemon
        with open(os.path.abspath('telegram_stickers.json')) as file:
                stickerlist = json.load(file)
        return stickerlist

stickerlist = use_json()
#stickerlist = use_pyversion() #work in progress

for k, v in stickerlist.iteritems():
        # take it slowly or they get out of order
        bot.sendSticker(target_chat, v)
        time.sleep(0.5)
        bot.sendMessage(target_chat, namelist[k])
        time.sleep(0.5)

bot.sendMessage(target_chat, "...that is all.")

while 1:
    time.sleep(10)