wordpress plugin, access $wpdb on non visible page

Question

I'm creating a wordpress plugin to fetch data from another website, It will be a cron file and I need to store some data in a table.

how do I access $wpdb from that file? do I need to link to a wordpress core file? I'm asking this because it's not a file that will be visible in the admin area or public area, it's just a file that run's in the background and I guess it will not know $wpdb.

or because it's in the wordpress plugin folder I can just access it? if someone could clear this up for me, thanks.

Answer 1

You need to include 'wp-blog-header.php'

include('/path/to/wp-blog-header.php');