I have a folder with different folders in it.
In one of the folder I have a python script.
The python script reads an excel file (which is in the same folder), scrapes information from the internet, updates the excel file and creates another excel file in the main directory.
My question is:
As I can't run my computer non stop, I imagine it's possible (easy? and free) to upload all my folders on a website which will allow me to run my python (3.8) script. Do you have any suggestions ? Which website could be appropriate ? Pythonanywhere.com ?
Plus, I'd like to run this script every morning at 6am.
Thank you for your answers ! :)
Yes, you could use PythonAnywhere -- free accounts allow you to create one scheduled task, which can run once a day. If you have an account, you can set it up on the "Tasks" page.
Some public cloud providers, such as GCP, AWS, and Azure, offer free tier VMs. Simply run the code on those and set up a cron job. Though the network usage probably still costs you a few cents a month, this is a very cheap way to go. You could also consider setting up a FaaS solution against very low cost.
As #Klaus said, this is not a programming question. If you are on linux you can use crontab to schedule your process.
crontab
And if you want to run it on the cloud you can use free services like Heroku
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I have a small python script that logins to a website, downloads a bundle of files and then saves these files to a Sharepoint site for use by others. There are multiple files to this and several required python imports.
I'd like to move this to Azure so I can put this thing on a schedule to run periodically so I can forget about it (and have the script send notification or otherwise). Actually there are other scripts I would also like to put on a schedule.
I'm somewhat baffled in where to start doing this on Azure. I have an Azure account with some free credit but beyond that confused as what Azure service this should be built on.
Google searching is not helping as all I get is bundle of buzzwords that are not really helping.
Looking for some pointers in the right direction.
Thanks
As mentioned by #Gaurav Mantri, you can use Azure functions' Timer trigger where the function is run on a schedule. Alternatively, for codeless automated workflows, you can even opt for Azure logic apps which provide many connectors that are performed just by constructing a workflow.
REFERENCES: Connect to SharePoint from Azure Logic Apps - MSFT Docs
I want to upload my a csv file daily on Ambari Apache. I've tried manuplating multiple solutions avaliable online to upload files of Google and other equivalent platforms. I have also tried methods like sftp to help me achieve it, but still have not found a solution. Please recommend any tips, ideas or methods on how should I achieve it.
There is an Ambari method to do this. You can create a custom service in ambari that would run. This would enable you to have ambari self contain the code and execute it. Out of the box Ambari wouldn't technically be running the script, you'd have to run it on a Master/Slave but you might be able to work around that by running an agent on ambari and making it a slave. If it's acceptable you could just have this service installed on one slave and have it push/pull the appropriate file to Ambari.
There are others that have implemented this on just one machine and you can google for how they make sure it's run on just one machine.
Over the past few weeks I've been coding a program which runs a reddit bot locally from my machine. I've perfected it such that it does not reply to the same comment which it has replied to before, it runs quite efficiently, and in my opinion is complete.
Now, I'm looking for a way to get the program to run on a schedule. I currently have the code in google colab, and I don't know how to use google colab for this functionality.
The program does not require any local storage, it's one code file, and does not require much memory, so I wanted to ask if anyone has a resource which has an detailed tutorial accessible for beginners which I could use to host this code
Note: The code requires an installation of PRAW, in google colab I simply do !pip install PRAW if that means anything differently for what I need to do, what should I do differently?
Thank you in advance.
Google Collab is not designed for this kind of things, and most likely it cannot be used to run your app on schedule.
Probably the easiest solution is some kind of Continuous Integration tool that lets you run code remotely.
Step 1 would be to host your code to some remote code repository like GitHub. Since it most likely won't have to be interactive switching from Collab notebook to simple Python script will make your config much easier later on.
Step 2 would be connecting that repo to some CI tool. One I am familiar with that lets you run pipelines on schedule is CircleCI, with this tutorial here showing very simplistic configuration for running Python scripts from a pipeline.
So far when dealing with web scraping projects, I've used GAppsScript, meaning that I can easily trigger the script to be run once a day.
Is there an equivalent service when dealing with python scripts? I have a RaspberryPi, so I guess I can keep it on 24/7 and use cronjobs to trigger the script daily. But that seems rather wasteful, since I'm talking about a few small scripts that take only a few seconds to run.
Is there any service that allows me to trigger a python script once a day? (without a need to keep a local machine on 24/7) The simpler the solution the better, wouldn't want to overengineer such a basic use case if a ready-made system already exists.
The only service I've found so far to do this with is WayScript and here's a python example running in the cloud. The free tier that should be enough for most simple/hobby-tier usecases.
I have a django site that needs to be rebuilt every night. I would like to check out the code from the Git repo and then begin doing the stuff like setting up the virtual environment, downloading the packages, etc. This would have no manual intervention as this would be run from cron
I'm really confused as to what to use for this. Should I write a Python script or a Shell script? Are there any tools that assist in this?
Thanks.
So what I'm looking for is CI and from what I've seen I'll probably end up using Jenkins or Buildbot for it. I've found the docs to be rather cryptic for someone who's never attempted anything like this before.
Do all CI like Buildbot/Jenkins simply run tests and more test and send you reports or do they actually set up a working Django environment that you can access through your browser?
You'll need to create some sort of build script that does everything but the GIT checkout. I've never used any Python build tools, but perhaps something like: http://www.scons.org/.
Once you've created a script you can use Jenkins to schedule a nightly build and report success/failure: http://jenkins-ci.org/. Jenkins will know how to checkout your code and then you can have it run your script.
There are litterally 100's of different tools to do this. You can write python scripts to be run from cron, you can write shell scripts, you can use one of the 100's of different build tools.
Most python/django shops would likely recommend Fabric. This really is a matter of you running through and making sure you understand everything that needs to be done and how to script it. Do you need to run a test suite before you deploy to ensure it doesn't really break everything? Do you need to run South database migrations? You really need to think about what needs to be done and then you just write a fabric script to do those things.
None of this even touches the fact that overall what you're asking for is continuous integration which itself has a whole slew of tools to help manage that.
What you are asking for is Continuous Integration.
There are many CI tools out there, but in the end it boils down to your personal preferences (like always, hopefully) and which one just works for you.
The Django project itself uses buildbot.
If you would ask me, then I would recommend you continuous.io, which works ouf the box with Django applications.
You can manually set how many times you would like to build your Django project, which is great.
You can, of course, write a shell script which rebuilds your Django project via cron, but you should deserve better than that.