Question

I have a website which fetches information from RSS feeds periodically (well, currently manually, and this is my problem). This is currently implemented as a normal Django view, which isn’t very nice in my opinion. I’d like to have a Python program which is run using a cronjob instead of manually visiting the correct URL to update the information.

What is the easiest way to make a Python program have access to my particular Django application and the Django ORM?

Answer 1

from django.core.management import setup_environ
from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives, send_mail
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

import settings
from my.app.models import *

setup_environ(settings)

This was how I did it for a cron that emailed parties daily updates. The .py lived in the root of my django app, so the import settings would reflect that accordingly.