hickory 0.6.0

About

hickory is a command line tool for scheduling Python scripts. Though not a replacement for a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) workflow scheduler, it's well-suited for most tasks.

Support

hickory currently supports:

Install

hickory is installed at the command line:

pip install hickory

The development version can be installed with:

pip install git+https://github.com/maxhumber/hickory

Quickstart

Create a python script called foo.py:

# foo.py
import datetime
import time

stamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M:%S")
time.sleep(5)

print(f"Foo - {stamp} + 5 seconds")

Schedule foo.py to execute every ten minutes:

hickory schedule foo.py --every=10minutes

Check the execution status of foo.py:

hickory status

Kill (stop and delete) the schedule for foo.py:

hickory kill foo.py

Logs

macOS - logs are stored in the same directory as the scheduled script:

tail -f hickory.log

Linux - logs are written to the journal:

journalctl -f

every Examples

Repeat to schedule input:

every Table

Schedule arguments: