How to add a user / api token to my crontab

Question

So basically I have a python script that checks a webpage for unassigned tickets and notifies me if there is any. My goal is to have a crontab file that runs the .py file every 2 minutes.

If I run the .py file using the following in terminal:

python check.py -u user@email.com -t aaAAAaAAaaAAAa

It functions as desired. However I need to figure out how to add the above user and API token, so that every two minutes the crontab runs the .py using the user/token.

My crontab so far is as follows

2 * * * * /usr/bin/python /Users/usr/Downloads/check-master/check.py

If you could point me in the right direction that would be great, or any advice you can give, thanks in advance.

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking - AFAIK you should be able to add arguments to commands within a crontab in exactly the same way as you do in the interactive shell (although beware of any that may contain unescaped percent signs) — steeldriver, Aug 23 '16 at 00:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '16 at 19:28

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os.environ['ZENDESK_API_USER'] = 'user@email.com' os.environ['ZENDESK_API_TOKEN'] = 'aaAAAAaaaA' (token)

I added that to the script itself, works fine.

answered Aug 23 '16 at 19:28

lwaskie

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