[Django]-Running a background task continuously in Django

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You can create a Management command

With a Management command you can acces to your database in the same way you accesss to it through Django.

Then you can schedule this command from cron or you can make this run forever because it will not block your application.

Another guide to write management command.

👤Davide Pizzolato

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You can use django-background-tasks, a database-backed worked queue for django. You can follow their installation instructions from here.

A sample background task for your case would be:

from background_task import background

@background(schedule=60)
def feed_database(some_parameter):
    # feed your database here
    # you can also pass a parameter to this function
    pass

All you need is to call feed_database from regular code to activate your background task, which will create a Task object and stores it in the database and run this function after 60 seconds.

In your case you want to run this function infinitely, so you can do something like this:

feed_database(some_parameter, repeat=60, repeat_until=None)

This will run your function once in 60 seconds, infinitely.

They also provide a django management command, where you can give run commands to your tasks (if you don’t want to start your task from your code), by using python manage.py process_tasks.

👤cagrias

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