I want to run this function everyday midnight to check expiry_date_notification. what can I do? I'm new to django and python.
def check_expiry_date(request):
products = Product.objects.all()
for product in products:
product_id = product.id
expiry_date = product.expiry_date
notification_days = product.notification_days
check_date = int((expiry_date - datetime.datetime.today()).days)
if notification_days <= check_date:
notification = Notification(product_id=product_id)
notification.save()
Have a look at:
Celery - Distributed Task Queue
You can either write a custom management command and schedule its execution using cron, or you can use celery.
As others have said, Celery can schedule tasks to execute at a specific time.
Install via
pip install django-celery