Django Auto Tasks & Reminders with Celery

1 year ago
Isabella Edwards
1 minute

One way to automatically generate tasks and remind users in Django is by using the Celery scheduling task module and Redis message queue module together. Here is a basic implementation step:

  1. Firstly, install Celery and Redis.
pip install Celery
pip install redis
  1. Configure Celery and Redis in the settings.py file of a Django project.
# settings.py

CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
  1. Create a tasks.py file to define task functions.
# tasks.py

from celery import Celery

app = Celery('tasks', broker='redis://localhost:6379/0')

@app.task
def remind_user():
    # 在这里编写提醒用户的逻辑
    pass
  1. Call the task function in views.py and set up a scheduled task.
# views.py

from tasks import remind_user
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def create_reminder(request):
    remind_user.apply_async(eta=datetime.now() + timedelta(minutes=30))
    return HttpResponse('Reminder created!')
  1. Start the Celery worker.
celery -A your_project_name worker --loglevel=info
  1. Start Celery beat for scheduling periodic tasks.
celery -A your_project_name beat --loglevel=info

By following the above steps, you can implement the feature of automatically generating tasks and notifying users in a Django project. You can modify the logic and calling method of the task function according to your actual needs.

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