Examples

Eager to get started? This page gives a good introduction to Schedule. It assumes you already have Schedule installed. If you do not, head over to Installation.

Run a job every x minute

import schedule
import time

def job():
    print("I'm working...")

# Run job every 3 second/minute/hour/day/week,
# Starting 3 second/minute/hour/day/week from now
schedule.every(3).seconds.do(job)
schedule.every(3).minutes.do(job)
schedule.every(3).hours.do(job)
schedule.every(3).days.do(job)
schedule.every(3).weeks.do(job)

# Run job every minute at the 23rd second
schedule.every().minute.at(":23").do(job)

# Run job every hour at the 42nd minute
schedule.every().hour.at(":42").do(job)

# Run jobs every 5th hour, 20 minutes and 30 seconds in.
# If current time is 02:00, first execution is at 06:20:30
schedule.every(5).hours.at("20:30").do(job)

# Run job every day at specific HH:MM and next HH:MM:SS
schedule.every().day.at("10:30").do(job)
schedule.every().day.at("10:30:42").do(job)
schedule.every().day.at("12:42", "Europe/Amsterdam").do(job)

# Run job on a specific day of the week
schedule.every().monday.do(job)
schedule.every().wednesday.at("13:15").do(job)
schedule.every().minute.at(":17").do(job)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Use a decorator to schedule a job

Use the @repeat to schedule a function. Pass it an interval using the same syntax as above while omitting the .do().

from schedule import every, repeat, run_pending
import time

@repeat(every(10).minutes)
def job():
    print("I am a scheduled job")

while True:
    run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

The @repeat decorator does not work on non-static class methods.

Pass arguments to a job

do() passes extra arguments to the job function

import schedule

def greet(name):
    print('Hello', name)

schedule.every(2).seconds.do(greet, name='Alice')
schedule.every(4).seconds.do(greet, name='Bob')

from schedule import every, repeat

@repeat(every().second, "World")
@repeat(every().day, "Mars")
def hello(planet):
    print("Hello", planet)

Cancel a job

To remove a job from the scheduler, use the schedule.cancel_job(job) method

import schedule

def some_task():
    print('Hello world')

job = schedule.every().day.at('22:30').do(some_task)
schedule.cancel_job(job)

Run a job once

Return schedule.CancelJob from a job to remove it from the scheduler.

import schedule
import time

def job_that_executes_once():
    # Do some work that only needs to happen once...
    return schedule.CancelJob

schedule.every().day.at('22:30').do(job_that_executes_once)

while True:
    schedule.run_pending()
    time.sleep(1)

Get all jobs

To retrieve all jobs from the scheduler, use schedule.get_jobs()

import schedule

def hello():
    print('Hello world')

schedule.every().second.do(hello)

all_jobs = schedule.get_jobs()

Cancel all jobs

To remove all jobs from the scheduler, use schedule.clear()

import schedule

def greet(name):
    print('Hello {}'.format(name))

schedule.every().second.do(greet)

schedule.clear()

Get several jobs, filtered by tags

You can retrieve a group of jobs from the scheduler, selecting them by a unique identifier.

import schedule

def greet(name):
    print('Hello {}'.format(name))

schedule.every().day.do(greet, 'Andrea').tag('daily-tasks', 'friend')
schedule.every().hour.do(greet, 'John').tag('hourly-tasks', 'friend')
schedule.every().hour.do(greet, 'Monica').tag('hourly-tasks', 'customer')
schedule.every().day.do(greet, 'Derek').tag('daily-tasks', 'guest')

friends = schedule.get_jobs('friend')

Will return a list of every job tagged as friend.

Cancel several jobs, filtered by tags

You can cancel the scheduling of a group of jobs selecting them by a unique identifier.

import schedule

def greet(name):
    print('Hello {}'.format(name))

schedule.every().day.do(greet, 'Andrea').tag('daily-tasks', 'friend')
schedule.every().hour.do(greet, 'John').tag('hourly-tasks', 'friend')
schedule.every().hour.do(greet, 'Monica').tag('hourly-tasks', 'customer')
schedule.every().day.do(greet, 'Derek').tag('daily-tasks', 'guest')

schedule.clear('daily-tasks')

Will prevent every job tagged as daily-tasks from running again.

Run a job at random intervals

def my_job():
    print('Foo')

# Run every 5 to 10 seconds.
schedule.every(5).to(10).seconds.do(my_job)

every(A).to(B).seconds executes the job function every N seconds such that A <= N <= B.

Run a job until a certain time

import schedule
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, time

def job():
    print('Boo')

# run job until a 18:30 today
schedule.every(1).hours.until("18:30").do(job)

# run job until a 2030-01-01 18:33 today
schedule.every(1).hours.until("2030-01-01 18:33").do(job)

# Schedule a job to run for the next 8 hours
schedule.every(1).hours.until(timedelta(hours=8)).do(job)

# Run my_job until today 11:33:42
schedule.every(1).hours.until(time(11, 33, 42)).do(job)

# run job until a specific datetime
schedule.every(1).hours.until(datetime(2020, 5, 17, 11, 36, 20)).do(job)

The until method sets the jobs deadline. The job will not run after the deadline.

Time until the next execution

Use schedule.idle_seconds() to get the number of seconds until the next job is scheduled to run. The returned value is negative if the next scheduled jobs was scheduled to run in the past. Returns None if no jobs are scheduled.

import schedule
import time

def job():
    print('Hello')

schedule.every(5).seconds.do(job)

while 1:
    n = schedule.idle_seconds()
    if n is None:
        # no more jobs
        break
    elif n > 0:
        # sleep exactly the right amount of time
        time.sleep(n)
    schedule.run_pending()

Run all jobs now, regardless of their scheduling

To run all jobs regardless if they are scheduled to run or not, use schedule.run_all(). Jobs are re-scheduled after finishing, just like they would if they were executed using run_pending().

import schedule

def job_1():
    print('Foo')

def job_2():
    print('Bar')

schedule.every().monday.at("12:40").do(job_1)
schedule.every().tuesday.at("16:40").do(job_2)

schedule.run_all()

# Add the delay_seconds argument to run the jobs with a number
# of seconds delay in between.
schedule.run_all(delay_seconds=10)