How to Schedule a Python Script with a Cron Job

Learn how to schedule a Python script with a cronjob including simple code examples that teach you the basic concepts of cron scheduling.

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[omidasadi]

absolutely efficient video in less than 10 minutes, thanks for sharing it!

[YassineAyouch]

thanks for the video, you deserve more views! please keep posting regularly.

[seanreidy]

Thanks for the video, Really helped me to solve the issue. I was having in getting my crontab to run Unfortunately,
I wasn't including the "/usr/bin/python3".

Great Work!!

[jim]

Great video, thanks! I was able to follow along and make it all work. Now if I could just make a script run in cron using "@ reboot" instead of explicit schedule.

[shaunpx]

Thanks for the video great content! What camera are you using 🤔 for your vids?

[sushantpatil]

Wait this is @CodeWithHarry video ... Did you just stole it ??

[nelsontan]

Hi Tony I’m able to execute a py script via an interpreter and likewise in terminal window but crontab just doesn’t run it even though I’ve entered the absolute paths for both python & the py script. I suspect it has something to do with what you said at the end of the video.

[raudatjadliwala]

My corn job is initialized but I am not getting new entries. Can you guide me through.

[stdio]

how can I code like, I want to find the subtraction between the first output and the new output?

[luanfranco]

Damm this is a godlike vídeo, good job!!🙏

[MartinAaberge]

Thank you for this video. I have been looking for some easy ways to get things to automatically execute. You didn't really explain more about crontabs later in the video, but I think I got what it does. How do you get this cron job to execute on startup? And do you have to manually kill it somehow if you don't want it to run? Does it die if you kill the term window or do you have to manually kill it? Subscribed to your channel. Keep up the good work!

[renerosalesjr.]

getting an error: '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted' could this be an issue with my mac not having proper access?

[manojprajapati]

If a cronjob is running a python script every minute then What will happen if it takes more than a minute to finish the execution of business logic of python script ? Before starting a new cronjob on next minute what will happen to previous process which is still under execution ? It will be killed by OS and new cronjob process will start or what ?

[imnotchinese]

but what when my project has dependencies

[ykybxyr]

What if we have to run the script only once

[harrisandreson]

On Cyberpanel how can we do this to automatically generate SSL, in Cyberpanel there is an option cronjob but it is not working. Kindly make a video on this, Secondly when I add another domain and install ssl it shows Selfsigned ssl error - your SSL will expire in 3666 days, something like this. How can I solve these two major issues, please help me.

[gustavoco]

Very noob question, when you say: Let's save that script and then your screen just changes from the page you were editing back to the terminal. What command do you use? I feel stuck in this editing page with the `~`s.

[BalajiLoganathan-suok]

im not to able to execute the python script from crontab if python is dependent on virtual env. I gave full path of the vir env in crontab and also used source command to activate . But none worked out in cron. If i run manually in shell it is working fine. If anyone can help me it will be much appreciable

[elchinmammadov]

I think you make things more complicated

[pythonblac]

Hi Tony, maybe you might be able to help me solve some mystery, on my MacBook Pro, i have my cronjob set up like this and it works like a charm : * * * * * cd /Desktop/Scripts && /usr/bin/python3 cron_job.py
Now few weeks ago i got a mac mini to purposely run my cron jobs since the job hs to run daily and requires the device to always be plugged in which isn't too good for the battery of my laptop, now the same cronjob setting refuses to work on the Mac mini, i've tried every single possible solution including yours in this vid but still doesn't work, i however notice that when i run the command "which python3", it point to the python in '/opt/homebrew/bin/python3", i don't know if that could be the root cause of my problem? using that path in my cronjob doesn't solve the problem either. Do you have any suggestion that might help?