Schedule Python Scripts with Windows Task Scheduler | Automate Python scripts

In this tutorial we are going to cover how to schedule your python scripts so that you can run them daily, weekly or even hourly basis.
There are different options available such as "Run when user logged on" or "Run when user is logged off". We will cover them both.
Also, I will show you a trick to hide the console window while executing a script via Windows Task Scheduler.

We will use the Task Scheduler App that comes included with windows.

Link to GitHub repo:

#TaskScheduler #Python #Scritps

Topics in this video (click to jump around):
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0:00 Introduction
0:36 Script Overview
1:52 Locate Python Install directory
2:49 Running a schedule when user is logged on
4:53 Hide Console Windows
5:40 Running a schedule when user is logged off

[olevam]

Really clear and strong video! I was quite confused by the whole thing

[diegonunez]

thank you sir!
Great tutorial. Straight to the point and fully intelligible

[tahirrana]

Awesome very informative and valuable videos please keep up the good work

[swabhimandalei]

Great video man. Crisp and clear. Really appreciate it.Thanks.

[nickd]

Fantastic video. Straight forward and concise.

[web_dev_host]

Thank you so much, it was very informative.

[missmosity]

Thank you so much for making this, it solved my problem!

[Mchenjunmin]

Hi, Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I have a question, if you don't mind to answer, my python works, dataframe printed on the command line, however, it doesn't update my csv. Any ideas? Thanks

[MrRaisin]

Thanks! For anyone wondering this will not work with notebook files

[debradavila-simpson]

I am not sure what is going on with my situation. I use "Where py" because my file is in Windows. Script runs fine locally. I did the last part as instructed: py location for program/script, py file name no quotations, and py file location with slash at the end - no quotations. Nothing happens and the results show 0x2. Have no idea what I'm doing wrong within my vm.

[CatZilla]

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(...)?

[nitesh]

@BI Insights Inc  For scheduling task for python script, you copy pasted code from jupyter notebook to a ".py" file. Is there a way to scheduling script directly from jupyter notebook in windows task scheduler with copy paste ?

[MrAgentjames]

my script works fine, but when I tried to schedule it, nothing happens
I followed your instructions to the details.
why it doesn't run automatically

[victorinerichard]

Stupid question but : does it work when my computer is off ?? I am looking for this type of solution ...

[tomaskozlik]

Great vid that can potentially save me considerable ammount of time weekly. The Schedulle works fine when I select "Run only when user is logged on" and if I have paths in quotes in tab "Actions" I have "Program/script" & "Add arguments (optional):".
However if I select option "Run whether user is logged on or not" i fill in "Program/script" path to my python executable without quotes, I fill "Add arguments (optional):" with the python file name without quotes and I fill "Start in (optional):" with path to script without quotes. The script doesn't run in this case.
Do you have any ideas why?

[paulmouatib]

Nice tutorial, unfortunatly, my script is working fine in VS Code but refuses to do anything once in the task scheduler. The console window is not even showing and I have a generic error mssage in the tab "history" of the task saying "Fail to launch"

[_schmorf_]

Nice video! But i have a problem with my scheduled task. I use docx2pdf for converting my files into PDFs once a month . Running the Job manually, everything is fine. But when i try to schedule the task, i get an DGI Error with the Windowhandler. Any ideas?

[hopeh]

@BI Insights inc, thank you so much for this useful video. I have a question, hope you would answer me. I have a task scheduled, but I am unable find the log files which I am desperately looking for to know if the script has failed, reason for failure etc. Any idea?

[smart]

Hi I was trying to schedule a .py file. However, the cmd console just flashed and closed. I'm pretty sure that the script works since I could run it through spyder, but I can't schedule it. Does anything I can do to solve this problem?

[sportdatascience]

Is it necessary to activate the conda environment?