Python Task Scheduler: Automatically run a Python Script (Windows) | jcchouinard.com

Hi everyone, my name is Jean Christophev Chouna

Today we will learn how to automate the execution of a Python script using Windows Task Scheduler

So you can search for my article using Python Task Scheduler and go to the article and you'll have everything in need in order to know what to do

Everything I'm telling you in this tutorial will be in there. If you want to get started, the first thing we need to know is

we need to know is that we're going to create a Python script first

that has this information. So all this Python crypt does is that it prints the time

and save it to a test.test of text file. So now that we have the script, we will open Windows Task Scheduler

So we go here, we search for Task Scheduler, and we open the app

The first thing we will do is we will create a task

And we will say, tell me the time

So tell me the time. So we create that task and then we need to create an action for the file

So what the action is is what do you want the task to do

So you go there, you click on new and then what you'll need to do is

is you will need to tell where Python is installed. So in order to tell where Python is installed

you can go to Command Prompt, and you can type where Python

Where Python. And then you have where the Python script is installed

So you can copy this and you can paste it here So now you tell where your Python script is installed Next you tell the name of the script so write time And you want to tell where the file is stored So you can come here and you can copy path and within your task you will tell the location of the file Then you click OK

So once the action is created, we need to tell it when to execute

So you can go in triggers, press on you, and then you select daily, weekly, monthly, or whatever

you want, and then you can say, I want to run this daily, and I say, okay, okay, and this

task will start running daily. So if you're not sure if the task has executed, you can always press on run and

see what's going on. And as you can see, by running test scheduler, the new test file was created telling me the time. So let's come back and just show what we do if it doesn't work. So you can come back, open test scheduler from script. So sometimes you'll be on that screen. So if you cannot find your action, you will go to active tasks and you will try to find your test. And then you will double click

on the task and then you can go to the properties and you can change your trigger action so instead

here I could change this to trigger to 55 and say okay let's run it if I want to delete the task

all I go is click on delete yes so this is how you run a Python script on automation

using task scheduler on Windows see you next next time