huey - a little task queue

a lightweight alternative.

• written in python
• only dependency is the Python Redis client

supports:

• multi-process, multi-thread or greenlet task execution models
• schedule tasks to execute at a given time, or after a given delay
• schedule recurring tasks, like a crontab
• retry tasks that fail automatically
• task result storage

Huey's API

from huey import RedisHuey, crontab

huey = RedisHuey('my-app', host='redis.myapp.com')

@huey.task()
def add_numbers(a, b):
    return a + b

@huey.periodic_task(crontab(minute='0', hour='3'))
def nightly_backup():
    sync_all_data()

To run the consumer with 4 worker processes:

$ huey_consumer.py my_app.huey -k process -w 4

Documentation

See Huey documentation.

Project page

See source code and issue tracker on Github.

Huey is named in honor of my cat: