a year ago
I have a Python flask app deployed.
I would like to call a function within the app every hour. I see the cron scheduler, but not a way to specify the command (e.g. python scripts/update_tweets.py)
Is there a way to accomplish this? Or should I expose an endpoint that then calls this script?
3 Replies
a year ago
How does your flask app and update_tweets.py communicate? Ideally, it is through a database, so the cron job can just update the values which are being served by your flask app. In this case, you would want to deploy another service using the same flask repository, specify a cron schedule and set python scripts/update_tweets.py as your custom start command.
Cron jobs docs: https://docs.railway.com/reference/cron-jobs
Start command docs: https://docs.railway.com/guides/start-command
a year ago
Gotcha, thank you!
Is there any way to have multiple cron jobs on the same service?
kblumberg
Gotcha, thank you!Is there any way to have multiple cron jobs on the same service?
a year ago
No, you can only specify one cron job for one service.
Status changed to Solved uxuz • 12 months ago