Django: how to send email when the publish date is reached for a blog item

Question

I have created a blog using Django

My blog model contains:

Title
Description
Image
Publish_date
Date_created

Now whenever i reach the publish_date, i want to send email or send some notification to an android app.

How to do that.

https://realpython.com/blog/python/asynchronous-tasks-with-django-and-celery/ — Satevg, Mar 07 '17 at 14:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '17 at 14:24

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Write a function which gets executed everyday (maybe using cronjob). The function will filter by publish date. simply write a function to send a mail to each one.

That's the way it is done everywhere.

answered Mar 07 '17 at 14:24

sprksh

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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use Django celery to check if the publish date reach or not. see Django celery http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html and if publish day found send email , see How to send email via Django?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Mar 07 '17 at 15:37

Shakhawat Hossain

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any example on github. – Santhosh Mar 08 '17 at 03:56

Django: how to send email when the publish date is reached for a blog item

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