[Labs-l] Guidance on how to set up pywikibot cronjobs and utilise oauth

Sat Mar 19 13:19:53 UTC 2016

>From my experience, problems with cron is often related to the fact it
doesn't run your interactive shell <
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/27289/how-can-i-run-a-cron-command-with-existing-environmental-variables
>

Probably a problem with PYTHONPATH not being set like you expect.

2016-03-19 14:07 GMT+01:00 billinghurst <billinghurstwiki at gmail.com>:

> Since I converted my (pywikbot) bot to use oauth authentication, it is
> failing on its cronjob due to not authenticating.
>
> ERROR: OAuth authentication not supported: No module named
> requests_oauthlib
>
>
> The bot and the task runs fine when run manually, though not from
> cronjob.  Ran fine previously.
>
> Can someone please either point me to some pertinent help information,
> or guide me on the changes that I need to be making to have this
> working successfully.
>
> Thanks.
> Billinghurst
>
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