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Schedules

Schedule classes for periodic tasks (used with celery beat).

crontab

crontab

Bases: BaseSchedule

Crontab schedule.

A Crontab can be used as the run_every value of a periodic task entry to add :manpage:crontab(5)-like scheduling.

Like a :manpage:cron(5)-job, you can specify units of time of when you'd like the task to execute. It's a reasonably complete implementation of :command:cron's features, so it should provide a fair degree of scheduling needs.

You can specify a minute, an hour, a day of the week, a day of the month, and/or a month in the year in any of the following formats:

.. attribute:: minute

- A (list of) integers from 0-59 that represent the minutes of
  an hour of when execution should occur; or
- A string representing a Crontab pattern.  This may get pretty
  advanced, like ``minute='*/15'`` (for every quarter) or
  ``minute='1,13,30-45,50-59/2'``.

.. attribute:: hour

- A (list of) integers from 0-23 that represent the hours of
  a day of when execution should occur; or
- A string representing a Crontab pattern.  This may get pretty
  advanced, like ``hour='*/3'`` (for every three hours) or
  ``hour='0,8-17/2'`` (at midnight, and every two hours during
  office hours).

.. attribute:: day_of_week

- A (list of) integers from 0-6, where Sunday = 0 and Saturday =
  6, that represent the days of a week that execution should
  occur.
- A string representing a Crontab pattern.  This may get pretty
  advanced, like ``day_of_week='mon-fri'`` (for weekdays only).
  (Beware that ``day_of_week='*/2'`` does not literally mean
  'every two days', but 'every day that is divisible by two'!)

.. attribute:: day_of_month

- A (list of) integers from 1-31 that represents the days of the
  month that execution should occur.
- A string representing a Crontab pattern.  This may get pretty
  advanced, such as ``day_of_month='2-30/2'`` (for every even
  numbered day) or ``day_of_month='1-7,15-21'`` (for the first and
  third weeks of the month).

.. attribute:: month_of_year

- A (list of) integers from 1-12 that represents the months of
  the year during which execution can occur.
- A string representing a Crontab pattern.  This may get pretty
  advanced, such as ``month_of_year='*/3'`` (for the first month
  of every quarter) or ``month_of_year='2-12/2'`` (for every even
  numbered month).

.. attribute:: nowfun

Function returning the current date and time
(:class:`~datetime.datetime`).

.. attribute:: app

The Celery app instance.

It's important to realize that any day on which execution should occur must be represented by entries in all three of the day and month attributes. For example, if day_of_week is 0 and day_of_month is every seventh day, only months that begin on Sunday and are also in the month_of_year attribute will have execution events. Or, day_of_week is 1 and day_of_month is '1-7,15-21' means every first and third Monday of every month present in month_of_year.

__init__

__init__(
    minute: Cronspec = "*",
    hour: Cronspec = "*",
    day_of_week: Cronspec = "*",
    day_of_month: Cronspec = "*",
    month_of_year: Cronspec = "*",
    **kwargs: Any,
) -> None

is_due

is_due(last_run_at: datetime) -> tuple[bool, datetime]

Return tuple of (is_due, next_time_to_run).

If :setting:beat_cron_starting_deadline has been specified, the scheduler will make sure that the last_run_at time is within the deadline. This prevents tasks that could have been run according to the crontab, but didn't, from running again unexpectedly.

Note: Next time to run is in seconds.

SeeAlso: :meth:celery.schedules.schedule.is_due for more information.

remaining_estimate

remaining_estimate(
    last_run_at: datetime, ffwd: type = ffwd
) -> timedelta

Estimate of next run time.

Returns when the periodic task should run next as a :class:~datetime.timedelta.

schedule

schedule

Bases: BaseSchedule

Schedule for periodic task.

Arguments: run_every (float, ~datetime.timedelta): Time interval. relative (bool): If set to True the run time will be rounded to the resolution of the interval. nowfun (Callable): Function returning the current date and time (:class:~datetime.datetime). app (Celery): Celery app instance.

__init__

__init__(
    run_every: float | timedelta | None = None,
    relative: bool = False,
    nowfun: Callable | None = None,
    app: Celery | None = None,
) -> None

is_due

is_due(last_run_at: datetime) -> tuple[bool, datetime]

Return tuple of (is_due, next_time_to_check).

Notes: - next time to check is in seconds.

- ``(True, 20)``, means the task should be run now, and the next
    time to check is in 20 seconds.

- ``(False, 12.3)``, means the task is not due, but that the
  scheduler should check again in 12.3 seconds.

The next time to check is used to save energy/CPU cycles, it does not need to be accurate but will influence the precision of your schedule. You must also keep in mind the value of :setting:beat_max_loop_interval, that decides the maximum number of seconds the scheduler can sleep between re-checking the periodic task intervals. So if you have a task that changes schedule at run-time then your next_run_at check will decide how long it will take before a change to the schedule takes effect. The max loop interval takes precedence over the next check at value returned.

.. admonition:: Scheduler max interval variance

The default max loop interval may vary for different schedulers.
For the default scheduler the value is 5 minutes, but for example
the :pypi:`django-celery-beat` database scheduler the value
is 5 seconds.

remaining_estimate

remaining_estimate(last_run_at: datetime) -> timedelta

solar

solar

Bases: BaseSchedule

Solar event.

A solar event can be used as the run_every value of a periodic task entry to schedule based on certain solar events.

Notes:

Available event values are:

    - ``dawn_astronomical``
    - ``dawn_nautical``
    - ``dawn_civil``
    - ``sunrise``
    - ``solar_noon``
    - ``sunset``
    - ``dusk_civil``
    - ``dusk_nautical``
    - ``dusk_astronomical``

Arguments: event (str): Solar event that triggers this task. See note for available values. lat (float): The latitude of the observer. lon (float): The longitude of the observer. nowfun (Callable): Function returning the current date and time as a class:~datetime.datetime. app (Celery): Celery app instance.

__init__

__init__(
    event: str, lat: float, lon: float, **kwargs: Any
) -> None

is_due

is_due(last_run_at: datetime) -> tuple[bool, datetime]

Return tuple of (is_due, next_time_to_run).

Note: next time to run is in seconds.

See Also: :meth:celery.schedules.schedule.is_due for more information.

remaining_estimate

remaining_estimate(last_run_at: datetime) -> timedelta

Return estimate of next time to run.

Returns: ~datetime.timedelta: when the periodic task should run next, or if it shouldn't run today (e.g., the sun does not rise today), returns the time when the next check should take place.