Python Crontab UI

This project aims to simplify managing cron jobs. Common issues that we encounter cron are:

• Jobs are failing silently.
• Manually editing crontab is error prone.

Features:

• Adding, Updating, Deleting and running cron jobs is simple.
• It automatically logs the output of your cron jobs. This can be viewed in the WEB UI.
• Displays when is the next scheduled run.
• Validates if your schedule is a valid cron schedule.
• Displays if your cron job is successful.

NOTE: The timestamp for the logs, and the status indicator requires that you use zsh instead of bash.

Screenshots

Quickstart

Start the server by running the following commands.

If you are not yet using zsh

sudo apt install zsh -y
# Make sure to accept the prompt to use zsh as your default shell
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
# moreutils is needed for a timestamp to be added in the logs
sudo apt install moreutils

git clone https://github.com/benjcabalona1029/python-crontab-ui.git
cd python-crontab-ui
mkdir logs
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn main:app

Notes

• This installs the cron jobs using the current OS user.
• You should use a unique command name. This is used in filtering the cron jobs.
• The log files are stored in the logs directory of this repository.
  • They are automatically deleted, once the job is deleted. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad idea, but it can easily be updated by updating the delete_cron_job function in cronservice.
• The implementation for the status indicator is quite simple, we check the last line of the log file for a specific job. If it contain the work Failed then the job will be tagged as failed.

TODO:

• Improve the UI. I'm not really good at HTML/CSS/JS. I mean, it is usable but it could be better.