cron jobs on google appengine

Question

How can I use cron on Google Appengine?

Answer 1

This page lists how to achieve Cron-like functionality on Google Appengine.

Answer 2

Read comments to issue 6 for possible workarounds.

Answer 3

Use http://schedulerservice.appspot.com/ or http://code.google.com/p/gaeutilities/wiki/Cron

Answer 4

See this post - maybe soon we'll get sort-of-cron functionality in GAE.

Answer 5

According to the official AppEngine blog's public roadmap update two weeks ago, scheduled tasks (as well as background task queues) are due for the release in the moderately near future ("in the next six months," as of Feb. 6, 2009).

Answer 6

Google has officially enabled cron in the AppEngine, for more details check: Cron for Python: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html Cron for Java http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html

Answer 7

You can now run scheduled tasks with google appengine

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html#Securing_URLs_for_Cron

Answer 8

Here is an example http://cron-tab.appspot.com/, the python source code is available in the related project at code.google.com/p/cron-tab/

Answer 9

How can I redirect a link(of other server) using cron scheduling in google app engine