performing backend operations / tasks after specific intervals of time on Google App Engine (python)

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I want my GAE app to do some back-end processing and uploading/updating results to data-store after specific intervals of time (say every 6 hours). So whenever a user uses my app (and basically requests those values from the data-store) they would get the recent/updated values from the data-store.

How would this be implemented in google app engine? I'd really appreciate if someone could guide me in the right direction and/or provide me with information pertinent to doing something like this in python.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 03 '12 at 19:01

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Take a look at the Cron task or set a task queue with a specific ETA

answered Jun 03 '12 at 19:01

PanosJee

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Thanks for the repky! Just one thing, can we use cron and/or task queues to perform these operations at regular intervals AS LONG AS the app remains hosted on the internet? Or can we only tell them to perform these a fixed number of times? – afroze Jun 04 '12 at 07:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 03 '12 at 23:07

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As @PanoJee stated Cron is what your looking for. Take a look at Python Cron it has all the information you need.

answered Jun 03 '12 at 23:07

Mark Finch

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performing backend operations / tasks after specific intervals of time on Google App Engine (python)

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