Tuesday, January 30, 2024

[SOLVED] Set cronjobs to run everyday at 6am in django python

Issue

I am using Django-Crontabs to execute my function every day in the morning at 6 am. Here is my code for Django-Crontabs.

Firstly I install Django-Crontabs with this command. pip3 install Django-crontab

Settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'django_crontab',
     'django.contrib.admin',
     'django.contrib.auth',
     'django.contrib.contenttypes',
     'django.contrib.sessions',
     'django.contrib.messages',
     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
     'myapp'
]

CRONJOBS = [
    ('* 6 * * *', 'myapp.cron.cronfunction')
]

Here I have set the code to run every day at 6 AM. As per the following template. But it is not working.

# Use the hash sign to prefix a comment
# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12)
# |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed

cron.py

def cronfunction():
      logger.warning("========== Run Starts ====")
      logger.warning("========== Run Ends ======")

If I am running this function every 2 or 3 minutes then it works fine.

    ('*/2 * * * *', 'myapp.cron.cronfunction')

How do I set my cronjob to run every day, Can anyone help? please.


Solution

Change your settings.py to:

# [...]

CRONJOBS = [
    ('0 6 * * *', 'myapp.cron.cronfunction')
]

0 specifies always at minute zero. 6 specifies always at hour six. Star means "every"; here day and month.

I can really recommend this visualization tool for cronjobs.



Answered By - Tarquinius
Answer Checked By - Willingham (WPSolving Volunteer)
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