sending to telegram channel: tsend.py <channel id> "<message>"

tsend.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
import time
import config
import telebot
import sys
import os
from emoji import emojize

bottoken="<token>"
proxy = '<IP>:<PORT>'

os.environ['http_proxy'] = proxy
os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = proxy
os.environ['https_proxy'] = proxy
os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = proxy

# it is for usergate (ssl cert check disable)
os.environ['CURL_CA_BUNDLE'] = ''
os.environ['PYTHONWARNINGS'] = 'ignore:Unverified HTTPS request'

bot = telebot.TeleBot(bottoken)

def send_new_post(chat_id, item):
        try:
                emoj = emojize(item, use_aliases=True)
                result = bot.send_message(chat_id, emoj)
                time.sleep(1)
                return 0
        except:
                print("Error: " + str(sys.exc_info()[0]))
                print(str(sys.exc_info()[1]))
                return 1
if __name__ == '__main__':
        f = open('/var/log/tsend.log', 'a')
        chat_id = sys.argv[1]
        message = sys.argv[2]
        f.write('\n-\n' + chat_id + ' ' + message + '\n')
        exitcode = send_new_post(chat_id, message)
        f.closed
        sys.exit(exitcode)