Runner

Runner is an easy peasy python script to run programs according to some conditions. The current supported conditions are:

• day of week
• time (hh:mm)

Other conditions will be added in the future:

• platform (mac/linux/windows)
• enable/disable flag

Then you can setup your system to execute runner.py at start-up.

Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage

Installation

Download the latest release.

Configuration

Edit runner.json and add the conditions and the programs to run. For instance, this is the configuration if you want to start notepad every day from 9am to 10pm:

{
    "name" : "Name or description of the json file",
    "schedules" :[
        {
            "days" : ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"],
            "startTime" : "9.00",
            "endTime" : "22.00",
            "tasks" : [
                "notepad"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Usage

Execute the python script:

python runner.py

By default it takes a file named runner.json placed in the same folder of the script. If you want to use a different .json file:

python runner.py alternativeRunner.json

You can also configure your system to execute runner.py at the system start-up: that's actually the idea behind runner.py! 😊