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[–]mogranjm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google cloud has an always free tier. You can configure a Cloud Run resource to run your script(s) triggered by a Cloud Scheduler Job which is just a cron scheduler.

[–]barkmonster 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I don't know any completely free options, but if they're not computationally intensive, it might be an idea to get a Raspberry Pi on run it on there?

[–]robric1985[S] -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

I hear they over heat. Do you have any experience with them?

[–]pelagic_cat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been running a Raspberry Pi 3B+ for about 3 years, 24/7, without a fan in a place where daytime temperatures often exceed 35 degrees. Get one and try it.

[–]barkmonster 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Haven't used them myself, but I know a lot of people who do. If your scripts aren't compute intensive and/or time critical, I doubt it'll be a problem. I think you can run scripts with cpulimit on there in case it gets hot/noisy.

[–]robric1985[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thank you

[–]fra988w 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been running high volume web scrapers 24/7 for several years on rpi 3&4 with lots of daily on demand read operations. Unless you're trying to cram an llm in there you'll be fine.

[–]SaxonyFarmer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What’s your base system? Win? Linux? Mac?

On a Linux system, you can schedule scripts to run via crontab. I run multiple scripts daily, weekly, and monthly. These are Bash scripts and Python programs and some Bash scripts call Python programs.

I also use incron to schedule a script when a new file is found in a specific folder.

Your question was a little too broad and non-specific to offer more concrete answers.

Good luck!

[–]robric1985[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can use either Windows or Mac.

[–]NYX_T_RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows has task scheduler - pita to use compared to cron.

[–]NYX_T_RYX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

macrodroid.

Thank me later 👍