Get next occurrences of a cron job

​​
​

Give Feedback | Bug report​
Tags: #python #cron #croniter #job #occurrences #scheduling
Author: Florent Ravenel​
Last update: 2023-05-09 (Created: 2023-05-09)
Description: This notebook will show how to get the next x occurrences of your cron job using croniter. It is usefull for organizations to schedule tasks and jobs.
References:
​croniter​
​cron​
Input
Import libraries
try:
    import croniter
except:
    !pip install croniter --user
    import croniter
import pytz
from datetime import datetime
Setup Variables
cron_expression: cron expression to be used
occurrences: number of occurrences to be returned
timezone: timezone identifier
cron_expression = "*/15 * * * *"
occurrences = 5
timezone = 'Europe/Paris'
Model
Set the timezone
# Set the timezone
tz = pytz.timezone(timezone)
Create a cron iterator
# Create a cron iterator with the timezone
cron = croniter.croniter(cron_expression, datetime.now(tz), tz)
Output
Get the next x occurrences of the cron job and convert them to text
for i in range(occurrences):
    next_occurrence = cron.get_next(datetime)
    print(next_occurrence.strftime('%A, %B %d, %Y at %I:%M %p'))

Locate coordinates

Get random number

Last modified 1mo ago