Best place to run Selenium from? Windows Task Scheduler seems to be unstable.

[Rok Povšič]

Hello,

Via Python I use Selenium to log to a website and download something automatically every day at 9:00

On Windows Server 2008 I've set up Task Scheduler to run the Python script.

I've tried the following:

- run *.py file directly from Task Scheduler

- run *.bat file from Task scheduler, where bat file contains "python file.py"

I've noticed that both are unstable when running automatically at the specified time (9:00). Sometimes the download happens and sometimes not. However, very time I run the Task Schedule by hand (with Run command), the download is successful.

Task Scheduler says that the program was run successfully.

I have this Task Scheduler and python script on a remote server to where I log via Remote Desktop Connection.

Is there some reason why these non stability appears?

Since Task Scheduler doesn't seem to perform well, should I use some other software to run my python script automatically?

Thank you for your answers and suggestions.

Rok

[Doug Dragon]

Hey Rok,

Have you checked the task's login option? Perhaps the user doesn't have appropriate access? Check out the attached image for a screenshot. This may or may not be part of the problem but it has bitten me in the past when setting up a similar task.

Hope that helps,

-Doug