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Good morning guys, I made a Python script that searches various websites for the occurrences of a few words and stores in SQL database. I would like to track the occurrence of these words over time, but I don’t want to keep clicking to run it or leave the computer turned on to keep running this routine. I would like for example that every 6 hours he would do this search and save the results. Can I get it running on some server? What would I need to learn to make this work? Thank you!
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You can use a hosting service such as Pythonanywhere to run your script. In this service you can create a free account and create or upload your script. It is possible to run your script using a console in the browser or to schedule for periodic execution. You can also use a mysql database provided by the host. In the free account there are some limits of storage, internet access and CPU that your application can use, but it is possible that in your case should not exceed any of them.
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Look for crontab or cronjob. Some servers provide access to this task scheduling tool from Cpanel. It is also possible to do it via the command line if you have access via SSH.
– Antonio Alexandre
Do you prefer the script to run full-time, and every 6 hours it runs the procedure? or you prefer it to be requested by an external agent?
– José Henrique Luckmann
@Joséhenriqueluckmann the idea is to run alone. Type of 12 in 12 hours.
– André