Question

I want create twitter-parser, using tweepy – thats ok. But also, i want use django for save and list results. First of all, i met with problem – import my models to the file with parser.

project_path/app_path/daemon.py – how import models? Or maybe for this operations in Django existing more logical way (for some background jobs, but with django)?

Answer 1

first, append project_path to sys.path so python can import it:

import os
import sys
sys.path.append('/path/towhere/myproject/') 

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'project_path.settings'

from app_path.models import *

#write your cron job.

I think you need to run schedule jobs, the better way to make it is by writing custom command, here is an example of such implementation: https://github.com/tivix/django-cron