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Python Script Windows Task Scheduler

This is my first time to schedule a python script.
My goal is to schedule my python script to run every 10 min.
MAIN.PY
from scrapy import cmdline
cmdline.execute("scrapy crawl news".split())
I created a task in windows task scheduler, but my script is not running somehow( I know the script is working since i can run it manually ). I been trying to solve this issue for hours without any luck.
First I select my python path, then I select the filepath for the project and choose the .py I want to run.
example here
Then I choose to trigger every 10 min.
After doing the steps described above, nothing happens.
Hope you can help me with a solution to my problem.

Not sure that it will fit in your case, but I think it might. Please, check out this topic.
How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?
Maybe you can run your script as a service and add a simple timer inside the script that launches your routine every 10 minutes from the inside.
Alternative solution that a colleague of mine is using is packing the python script inside an executable by using fbs or pyinstaller and adding it into the task scheduler.

it might be the environment problem.The windows task scheduler is running in C:\Windows\System32 by default,so if your some argument is not absolute path or will changed with the environment,it will get wrong result.i suggest u use some logging way to record your program's running status and result so u can debug where went wrong

Cronjob on Ubuntu Mate for Raspberry stops right after execution

I use a RaspberryPi 3 with UbuntuMate 16.04. On it, I want to start a little Python (3.5) program every midnight. For that I call a little shell script, so that I can change into the wanted directory comfortably.
crontab:
5 0 * * * /path/to/script/start.sh
start.sh (yes, it's executable):
#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/wanted/workingDir/
python3.5 ControllerQueue.py
#also tried: python3.5 ControllerQueue.py &
Now if I execute the programm or script from the terminal, everything runs fine. But if I use the crontab it starts the script and stops right after. I also tried running the programm directly but get the same outcome. The paths are correct as I copied the workingDir path from the crontab-file and started it via the terminal.
Is there something I overlook?

As stofvl suggested, I saved the error output of my shell script. It turns out that I needed to add a display. My programm is divided into two scripts. One which provides a GUI and the other main application. The script only starts the main application, without the GUI, but it seems that this didn't matter.
This discussion helped me solve the problem.

Cron job can't run bash script (that shells python script requiring xsession) that runs perfectly well from console

I am using dryscrape in a python script. The python script is called in a bash script, which is run by cron. For those who may not be aware, dryscrape is a headless browser (use QtWebkit in the background - so requires an xsession).
Here are the main points concerning the issue I'm having
When I run the python script from the command line, it works
When I run the bash script from the command line, it works too
I figured out that this may have something to do with different environments between my command prompt and when the cron job is running, so I modified my bash script to source my .profile as follows:
#/bin/bash
. /full/path/to/my/home/directory/.profile
python script_to_run.py
This is what my cronjob crontab entry looks like:
0,55 14-22 * * 1-5 /path/to/script.sh >> $(date "+/path/to/logs/\%Y\%m\%d.mydownload.log" )
By the way, I know that the job is being run (I can see entries in /var/log/syslog, and the script also writes to a log file - which is where I get the error message below):
In all cases, I got the following error message:
Could not connect to X server. Try calling dryscrape.start_xvfb()
before creating a session
I have installed the prerequisites, on my machine (obviously - since it runs at the command line). At the moment, I have run out of ideas.
What is causing the script to run fine at the console, and then fail when run by cron?
[[Relevant Details]]
OS: Linux 16.0.4 LTS
bash: version 4.3.46(1)
cron user: myself (i.e. same user at the command prompt)
dryscrape: version 1.0.1

The solution to this was to call the dryscrape.start_xvfb() method before starting the dryscrape session.

Cron user does not have display, so you cannot run any command which requires a display.
You need to modify the python script to do not use any type of display (check carefully, because some python commands, even though they do not open any display , they internally check for this variable).
The best way to test is to ssh into the machine without Display, and check if you can run it from there without erros.

Ubuntu run python script on system startup that is using Firefox

I wrote python script that uses subprocess.pOpen() module to run and manipulate with 2 GUI programs: Firefox and VLC player. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system in Desktop mode.
My problem is when I try to run that python script when system starts, script is running but Firefox or VLC don't start.
So far, I tried to make shell script to run my python script and then with crontab with #reboot /home/user/startup.sh to execute my python script. I set all permissions for every script that is using. I gave my user root permisions so everything is OK with that.
I also tried to run my script putting command "sudo python /path/to/my/script.py" in /etc/rc.local file but that also is not helping.
I googled and found out people using .desktop files that they put in ~/.config/autostart/ directory but that also failed. Example of what I wrote:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec="sudo python /home/user/path_to_my_script/my_script.py"
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=screensplayer
Comment=screensplayer
And I saved this as program.desktop in ~/.config/autostart/ directory but it does not work. I am sure there is a way to fix this but don't know how. Any help will be appreciated!

Found solution to my problem. When you are running commands with pOpen in python like this:
FNULL = open(os.devnull, 'w')
_FIREFOX_START = ["sudo", "firefox", "test.com/index.html"]
subprocess.Popen(self._FIREFOX_START, stdout=self.FNULL, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
it won't run apps because of "sudo" word, when I removed it, it worked.
Also run gnome-session-properties in terminal and add new startup application, be aware that you have to execute python script without sudo, like this:
python /home/user/path_to_script/script.py
Also, I granted my user root privileges so kepp that in mind.

python executing in IDLE, but not in termnal

I have a python script on a Raspberry Pi reading the temperature and humidity from a sensor. It works fine when started in IDLE, but when I try starting it in a terminal I get the message:sudo: unable to execute .thermostaatgui.py: No such file or directory. The first line in the script is: #! /usr/bin/python, the same as in other scripts that run without problems and the script is made executable with chmod +x.
In the script Adafruit_DHT, datetime and time are imported, other scripts that work do the same.

+1 on the above solution.
To Debug
try this
Type "pwd" on your terminal. This will tell you where you are in the shell.
Then type "ls -lah" and look for your script. if you can not find it, then you need to "cd" to the directory where the script exists and then execute the script

Looks like you might have just made a typo:
sudo .thermostaatgui.py
should probably be
sudo ./thermostaatgui.py
assuming that you're in the directory containing your script, and that it's called thermostaatgui.py.

Well, still a little puzzled why it happened, but anyway this solved the problem:
As a workaround, I copied the contents of "thermostaatgui.py" over the contents of a working script ("mysimpletest.py"), saved it and it runs OK.