script-engine

Simplify scheduling Python scripts on Linux. Just drop your Python script in the designated folder for your desired interval (minute, half-hour, hour, or day) and script-engine takes care of the rest.

Features:

Effortless scheduling: No complex configuration or cron jobs needed.

Table of content

• Motivation
• Installation & Usage
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Contributing
• History
• Credits
• License

Motivation

I needed a simple way to run some python scripts on my Raspbery Pi to collect home automation data at regular intervals.

Installation & Usage

Installation

1. Download the files in this project
2. Extract the entire script-engine folder and place it in your user home directory
3. Edit your crontab file ("crontab -e" command) and paste the following lines at the end of the file:

* * * * * ~/script-engine/#setup/minute.sh
*/30 * * * * ~/script-engine/#setup/half-hour.sh
0 * * * * ~/script-engine/#setup/hour.sh
50 23 * * * ~/script-engine/#setup/day.sh

Usage

Write your python script and simply drop it into the appropriate folder. For example if i wanted the scrip to run every minute i would need to drop it into /script-engine/minute

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

History

31/05/2020: v0.1 Beta

Credits

• Template for this README is Template-README created by Zain Khan

License

See the LICENSE file in this project's directory.