How to Run a Python Program with Windows Task Scheduler

In this video, I'll show you how to run a python program on a schedule with Windows Task Scheduler. I have a python file (.py) that scrapes news articles from local news websites and creates a JSON. I then use the JSON to run a python flask website on my local machine. The webscraping can take several minutes, so I'm using task scheduler to run the program every morning at 3 am before I wake up. It's super easy to do.
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[@MuhammetMustafa-nr2vj]

My friend, thank you very much, you have explained everything in detail, you really deserve not one like but thousands of likes.
Congratulations!

[@christiansaona1589]

OMFG after a 100 videos this one got me thorugh, thank you very much, GREETINGS FROM ECUADOR

[@BrandonJacobson]

YES! I'm so glad to hear that.

[@mkq10]

7:00 @BrandonJackobson and for ALL viewers, it runs but silently because you chose the option "logged on or not" at 3:18. If you choose first option it will display (not silent)

[@joshuahorton5135]

Thank you I was passing my script in the program script section and nothing else it makes sense now I’ll try again in a bit.

[@lam-thai-nguyen]

haha me too, change it and now it works

[@joshuahorton5135]

@@lam-thai-nguyen question have you tried the at startup ? That one still hand worked for me but the others have

[@cheybrown2076]

Really helpful! Thanks for that

[@BrandonJacobson]

Awesome. I'm glad it helped.

[@Dobrinich]

Great job!

[@BrandonJacobson]

Thanks!

[@jianyuan730]

nice tutorial!!!

[@BrandonJacobson]

Thanks!

[@VinayPatel-g6t]

I don't know why my task get's scheduled but it's not running

[@bidhanry9740]

Hey mate, did u get any solutions? If yes, please mention the steps how to solve it, I'm facing the same issue

[@shawng1783]

thank you

[@BrandonJacobson]

Awesome! I'm glad it helped.

[@congly5708]

Hi, Could it be a ipynb file instead?

[@KevinDMontillo]

thanks bro

[@pythonenthusiast9292]

I had a doubt. I have an automation script using python. While I have set a time to run the script during that time I still cannot work on my other tasks in the system right? I have to wait for it to run completely
My script will automate a desktop app and my goal is that it should run parallely while I do my other work on the system. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks

[@BrandonJacobson]

If you're running a program using Windows Task Scheduler and you run it through Python, it should run in the background and not prevent you from doing anything else.

[@mashailfurqan5150]

you have to refresh it once you run the program yourself

[@xlgablx]

Thanks, it was really helpful.

[@BrandonJacobson]

Awesome! I'm glad it helped.