Python make script run at specified time daily

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I want to make this script to run automatically once or twice a day at a specified time, what would be the best way to approach this.

def get_data():
    """Reads the currency rates from cinkciarz.pl and prints out, stores the pln/usd
       rate in a variable myRate"""

    sock = urllib.urlopen("https://cinkciarz.pl/kantor/kursy-walut-cinkciarz-pl/usd") 
    htmlSource = sock.read()                            
    sock.close()                                        

    currancyRate = re.findall(r'<td class="cur_down">(.*?)</td>',str(htmlSource))

    for eachTd in currancyRate:
        print(eachTd)

    print currancyRate[0]
    myRate = currancyRate[0]
    print myRate
    return myRate

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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You can use crontab to run any script at regular intervals. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/8727991/1517864

To run a script once a day (at 12:00) you will need an entry like this in your crontab

0 12 * * * python /path/to/script.py

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Oct 10 '15 at 18:14

jayant

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I wanted to do it within the code itself but that's an idea – leela.fry Oct 10 '15 at 18:43
Then you might want something like this http://stackoverflow.com/a/16786600/1517864 – jayant Oct 10 '15 at 18:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '15 at 22:30

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You can add a bash function.

while true; do <your_command>; sleep <interval_in_seconds>; done

answered Oct 17 '15 at 22:30

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Python make script run at specified time daily

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