alicewu1/crontab

HHA507 / Data Science / Assignment 6

crontab

This repo aims to automate tasks using crontab and contains:

api.py

• that pulls down data from an API
• API Data Retreived from NIH: https://datadiscovery.nlm.nih.gov/Drugs-and-Chemicals/Pillbox-retired-January-28-2021-/crzr-uvwg
• retreived data is then saved locally on the machine where the cron jobs are running
• should be part of the python code (data.to_csv('/home/alice_wu/crontab/data/api_data.csv')

README.md

• this .md contains instructions for how the python files were automated using 3 crontab expressions (https://crontab.guru/)

Once a day, regardless of time:

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/alice_wu/crontab/api.py > log.txt 2>&1 &

Every Sunday at 10 PM:

00 10 * * SUN /usr/bin/python3 /home/alice_wu/crontab/api.py > log.txt 2>&1 &

Every Quarter:

0 0 1 */3 * /usr/bin/python3 /home/alice_wu/crontab/api.py > log.txt 2>&1 &

setup.md

• contains instructions for how to setup up your .ssh terminal in a remote VM