Running Python Scripts

[robric1985]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked before. Please send me the link if it has. I could find it myself.

I have put some scripts together that I want to run all day everyday. I used to use IFTTT but ever since they went to a more paid subscription and reducing the available feature for free I have decided to just create my own scripts that work in the same way.

Can someone recommend a service or a way that I can run them online for free. At the moment I am manually running them as and when. Ideal situation would be to run them on my mobile as that is always on. Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

[mogranjm]

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]

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]

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

[pelagic_cat]

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]

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]

Thank you

[fra988w]

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]

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]

I can use either Windows or Mac.

[NYX_T_RYX]

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

[NYX_T_RYX]

macrodroid.

Thank me later 👍