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Tjorriemorrie
Tjorriemorrie

Reputation: 17282

App Engine cron schedule to run on weekdays

I want to run a cron on App Engine every 5 minutes, but only on weekdays.

cron:
- description: run 
  url: /cron/run
  schedule: */5 * * * 1-5

It gives the error:

expected alphabetic or numeric character, but found '/'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 492

Answers (2)

Sankha Karunasekara
Sankha Karunasekara

Reputation: 1726

Since I was here to find out how to run a cron on a specific time on Weekdays,

  schedule: every mon,tue,wed,thu,fri 7:00

This worked for me, but if you want to specify both date period and the time period, you have to use Zig Mandel's solution. Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 1

Zig Mandel
Zig Mandel

Reputation: 19835

Its not possible just using cron. If what you want is saving instance hours, you can instead schedule a chron to run at midnight daily. It checks if its a weekday and if so it runs a taskqueue. The taskqueue starts another taskqueue 5 minutes ahead and also does its work. Taskqueue stops as soon as day changes.

Upvotes: 0

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