topic Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off? in Data Engineering

How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

LB_Team — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:28:30 GMT

I have a Python script that I want to automate using Task Scheduler on Windows. The script runs fine when my laptop is on, but I want it to execute daily (including Sundays) even if my laptop is turned off or not in use.Is there any other method that ensures the script runs consistently without needing my laptop to be powered on? Any suggestions or step-by-step guidance would be helpful.

Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

ahmetyilmaz — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:27:30 GMT

Hi @LB_Team , you can do this by renting a server. This way you don't need to keep your own computer on. You cannot execute commands on your computer when it is off.

Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

spencer_sa — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:44:45 GMT

First question is; is your Python code local to your laptop or inside a Fabric notebook?
If your code is local, then you'll need some external resource, like renting a server (as @ahmetyilmaz says) or migrating the code to Fabric. This is out of scope for the rest of this reply.

If your code is in a Fabric notebook and you're wanting to schedule the notebook, you can either create a schedule directly within the notebook or you can make the notebook part of a pipeline (using the Notebook activity) and schedule that pipeline.

Example;
I could write a notebook that queries a weather API to get the day's forecast and persist this data in a Fabric table. I could then schedule this to run at 1am to ensure I always had a daily forecast.

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Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

LB_Team — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:46:14 GMT

Python code is local to my laptop.Give me something other than renting a server.

Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

spencer_sa — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:55:02 GMT

If your code has no local dependecies (i.e. you don't need any data/files from the laptop), you could consider migrating the code to a Fabric notebook which will run Python. You've posted in a Fabric Community Forum so this is the most likely topic of advice here.
There are tonnes of learning resources about notebooks - starting here;
How to use notebooks - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

There is a free trial of Fabric available - go beyond that and you'll be into a paid capacity though.

Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

v-prasare — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:54:35 GMT

Hi @LB_Team, As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided for your issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance here?

@spencer_sa& @ahmetyilmaz, Thanks for your promt response.

Thanks,

Prashanth Are

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Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

v-prasare — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:16:33 GMT

Hi @LB_Team, As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided for your issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance here?

Thanks,

Prashanth Are

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Re: How can I schedule a Python script to run daily (including Sundays) even when my laptop is off?

v-prasare — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:14:13 GMT

@LB_Team, As we haven’t heard back from you, we wanted to kindly follow up to check if the solution provided for your issue worked? or let us know if you need any further assistance here?

Thanks,

Prashanth Are

MS Fabric community support

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