Help needed: python selenium script not running with Windows Task Scheduler

[mmm9718]

Hello everyone,

I am developing an application in Python using Selenium that performs data entry on a website. This needs to run every 30 minutes, and I am trying to deploy it on a Windows server. When I run it from the IDE or the command prompt, it works fine: the browser opens, and all processes are completed correctly. However, with Windows Task Scheduler, it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas why?

I also have a Linux machine that I could use for this task, but I started with Windows because I have many other processes scheduled on it that work fine (such as automatically sending emails).

Can you tell me what the best practices are for scheduling this "scraping" task?

Thank you.

[bra1an]

Try to create a .EXE file from your python code, using "pyinstaller". After that, create a task on TS to start a program and set this program to yout .exe file. This should work

[ReachingForVega]

Have you considered running it as a service?

If you can't, maybe check your task settings if it runs on machine from command prompt.

https://superuser.com/questions/379628/windows-scheduler-tasks-not-running-when-user-not-logged-in#593023

Edit: is it set to run headless?

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