Write a custom management command[1] and use cron[2] to call it every few minutes, once a day, or whenever you like.
Cron is far easier to use than the man page makes it out to look, by the way. [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/custom-management-commands/ [2] http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crontab&sektion=5 (Debian man page) Cheers, James On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 8:00:34 AM UTC-7, Stan Rosenbaum wrote: > > > Hey All, > > So my team and I are trying to build a simple Status update app for our > group. > > We want to be able to send SMS text messages to our Django app and update > our database entries from the text messages. > > We have a library that pulls the data from our SMS service [Twilio], but I > am not sure where is the best place to create a function in a Django App > Structure that will poll that external service for update periodically. > > Any Suggestions? > > Stan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/aea8bb00-5c30-485c-af00-92ffba6dd17e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
