Execute task on specific time in Django

Question

I have to execute a task at a specific time, which is specified by the user. This will not be fix time... It will be according to user...

On that time I have to execute my task...

To achieve this I tried to use django-cron also tried to use django-crontab...

But in both case either we have to specify cron details in settings.py or we've to execute runcron commands.

I also checked django-celery (I don't have any idea about celery much. I may be wrong).

In celery we have to specify time while defining task...

Can any one help me how can I do this...

I am using django as a backend...

You'll have to use celery. It's the best thing to run scheduled tasks. Please refer to this documentation and tutorial provided on their website : docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/… — pissall
– pissall, Commented Dec 4, 2017 at 12:45
stackoverflow.com/questions/47489274/… find the delta time and use it as eta — HQM
– HQM, Commented Dec 5, 2017 at 16:32

Parul Dixit · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-04 12:56:49Z

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To execute a task at specified date and time you can use eta attribute of apply_async while calling task as mentioned in docs(http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/calling.html#eta-and-countdown)

your_task.apply_async(kwargs={}, eta="your_send_time")

## Note: your_send_time should be of type `datetime`.

answered Dec 4, 2017 at 12:51

Parul Dixit

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