Alert Telegram bot for once you become active witness on bitshares (run as crontab) (will ping everytime, dumb script, could use some STATE for saving - e.g. pickle) Need to add telegram_token & telegram_id and update "myname" to yours

witness-in-out.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from bitshares import BitShares
from bitshares.blockchain import Blockchain
from bitshares.account import Account
from bitshares.instance import set_shared_bitshares_instance
from bitshares.witness import Witness
import requests

websocket = "wss://btsws.roelandp.nl/ws"

bitshares = BitShares(websocket)
set_shared_bitshares_instance(bitshares)

#witness accountname to monitor:
myname = "roelandp"

telegram_token = "STRING"      # Create your Telegram bot at @BotFather (https://telegram.me/botfather)
telegram_id    = INT         # Get your telegram id at @MyTelegramID_bot (https://telegram.me/mytelegramid_bot)

# Telegram barebones apicall
def telegram(method, params=None):
    url = "https://api.telegram.org/bot"+telegram_token+"/"
    params = params
    r = requests.get(url+method, params = params).json()
    return r

# Telegram notifyer
def alert_witness(msg):
    # Send TELEGRAM NOTIFICATION
    payload = {"chat_id":telegram_id, "text":msg,"parse_mode":"HTML"}
    m = telegram("sendMessage", payload)


for wid in Blockchain().config()['active_witnesses']:
    w = Witness(wid)
    a = Account(w['witness_account'])

    if a.name == myname:
        print(a.name)
        alert_witness("you have become active again on bitshares! Check your pricefeeds!")