How to constantly run Google Colaboratory at a specific time every day?

python schedule google-colaboratory
Bearfinn picture Bearfinn · Feb 23, 2018 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I recently have built a Python program that runs on Google Colaboratory that retrieves the data from a site. Since I wanted to create a graph based on data of one month, I want to retrieve the data every day. Is there any way to run this on Google Colab, because my friend would like to fix the code at some time too? If not, is there a way to perform this on Windows 10? Thank you in advance.

Answer

xendi picture xendi · Apr 25, 2019

This has changed now that I created colabctl.

You can use colabctl to run your Google Colaboratory notebooks from the CLI, on a schedule if you wish. Simply add colabctl.py to a cron job.

Note: If you want to run it on a headless server, you will first need to run it once from your desktop to save your login cookie to the pickle file and then upload that pickle to your server along with colabctl.

Related questions

Python - Working out if time now is between two times

I'm trying to find the cleanest/most pythonic way of evaluating if "now" is between two times; However; the Start/End times may, or may not, fall across a day boundary- for example (just using simple examples): onhour=23 onmin=30 offhour=4 …

Read More
TypeError: the first argument must be callable

I am using python and schedule lib to create a cron-like job class MyClass: def local(self, command): #return subprocess.call(command, shell=True) print "local" def sched_local(self, script_path, cron_definition): import schedule import time #job = self.…

Read More
Trigger a Python function exactly on the minute

I have a function that I want to trigger at every turn of the minute — at 00 seconds. It fires off a packet over the air to a dumb display that will be mounted on the wall. I know I can …

Read More