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How to Schedule and Execute Python Scripts as Cron Jobs & Execute Them Every After 5 Seconds
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video i will show you how to
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schedule and execute python scripts as
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chron jobs or exeu execute them every
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after uh x amount of seconds let's
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suppose 5 seconds 10 seconds so there is
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some situations out there because uh you
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need to schedule your python scripts to
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actually execute at a specific amount of
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time in the whole day so let's suppose
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if you want to delete something using a
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python script so you only want to delete
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at a specific amount of time so i will
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show you in this video how to schedule
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it to run them at a specific amount of
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time
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so there are quite a different amount of
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ways you can do this the very first
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basic way by which you can do this is
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using the time module which is a
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built-in inside your python
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uh installation so you need not have to
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install anything just import the time
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module and right
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here you run a simple while
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loop and inside this while loop you
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actually put true here so it will be
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running infinite number of times so here
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you basically write any code that you
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want to execute it can be anything and
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after that you sleep for some time using
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the sleep method so here this value is
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in second so this means that it will
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print out hello world it will execute
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this code and then it will pause for 1
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second and then it will repeat because
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it's a while
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loop so now the output of the program is
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very simple you simply execute the
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program and then it will print out hello
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world and then it will pause for 1
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second again execute and this will
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execute infinite number of time so you
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can even put a restriction that after
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five attempts this will get
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over so this is the very basic way by
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which you can schedule python scripts to
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repeat after every
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second so the next way is slightly
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complicated for this we actually use a
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third party package for this so i
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personally like this package which is
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called as schedule should schedule the
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name of the package is schedule it's
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simply install this by executing this
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command it's similarly scheduuling the
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scripts you first of all import this
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module
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uh after importing it you specify it by
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invoking this and it contains a every
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function and uh right here you specify
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the amount of time so every 5 seconds
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after every 5 seconds i want to execute
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this so here it will seconds you can
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even say minutes as well there is also
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minute as well but i will say every
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after 5 seconds we need to execute this
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do so here you can define a
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function so it can be anything this
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function can be anything so hello world
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so now we define this function right
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here which will be hello
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world so here we print out hello world
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simply so this can be anything it can be
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any cron job that you want to execute
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and then we just need to call this
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schedule function in the while loop to
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repeat this infinite number of times so
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schedule dot run pending that's all this
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code is used to initialize this package
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so this will call this function after
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every 5 seconds you want to execute this
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hello world function which will print
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out hello world on the terminal so if
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you just execute this
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now after 5 seconds it will take a pause
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of 5 seconds and then again it will
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print out hello
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world again it will take a pause of 5
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seconds and then again it will print out
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hello world so this hello world can be
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anything it can a code for deleting
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files so here you can put a restriction
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let's suppose every 60 seconds so here
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you can change this so now this will
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instead of waiting 5 seconds it will
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wait an entire minute and then after
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that it will execute this hello world so
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in this easy way using this third party
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package you can actually schedule your
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python scripts to run at a particular
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time interval as a chrome job you can
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run these python scripts so i just loved
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this module uh to
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actually uh run python scripts uh after
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x amount of seconds or minutes or hours
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as well i
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think there is also this minutes
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available or you can even schedule it to
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run on a specific time as well so here
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add time as well so here you can
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actually provide a specific time
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interval so you can see in 24hour
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format so 20 you can provide the full
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time interval so here you can actually
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add a specific time interval you can put
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the time interval and then at that
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specific time the python script will
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execute so you can build out some
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advanced kinds of application just
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install this module pip install should
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schedule and check out their
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documentation
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uh i think this
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this is a complete example that they
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have given on their documentation
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website let me execute this so right
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here every 10 seconds every 10 minutes
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every 1
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hour at a specific day at a specific
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time you can see all these permutation
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combinations are there you can just
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execute this and integrate inside your
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application so you can actually schedule
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multiple amount of combinations and
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whenever that
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combination comes out to be true your
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your script your code will get executed
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so in this easy way guys you can
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schedule your python scripts in as a
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chron job thank you very much for
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