How to perform a specific task in django automatically after a fixed interval of time?

Question

Lets say I have a database model in Django which stores top 100 songs. This data comes from an api.

The problem is that the song ranking may change from time to time [30 minutes/ 1 hour].

I wish to implement a method in the web app such that it automatically runs a particular function in python [ which updates the database by sending api requests] every 10 minutes , whether there is a user online or not.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

You can use Celery for this, but it is probably overkill if you just have simple task. http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html

Answer 2

A simple solution would be to create a django management task wich update the song raking and call it with a cron every ten minutes.

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