How to hook in/extend Django?

[Stan Rosenbaum]

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

[C. Kirby]

Celery[0] with a periodic task[1].

[0] http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/django/first-steps-with-django.html
[1]http://celery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/userguide/periodic-tasks.html

Kirby

[jaddison]

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