I want to call external urls using cron job of Google App Engine. And I also want to induce sleep between cron jobs.
Is that possible?
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I want to call external urls using cron job of Google App Engine. And I also want to induce sleep between cron jobs.
Is that possible?
You can’t directly fetch external URLs using a cron job, but this is easy to work around: Just define a cron job that, as it sole activity, fetches an external URL using the urlfetch API.
Sleeping inside a request is possible as long as it doesn’t exceed 30 seconds of execution time, but generally a very bad idea. Instead, use the task queue with a delay so the task will execute when you want it to.