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Moving your cron job to the cloud with Google Cloud Functions

Dustin Ingram on May 03, 2019

A cron job is a way to run a program on a server at a specified interval. This is often a small script that does some repeatable task, like collect...
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Matías Vergara Irarrázaval •

Hey Dustin, good article. Just wondering, how do you make the CF url redirect to twitter?

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Dustin Ingram •

Cloud Functions just uses Flask under the hood, so I just did:

from flask import redirect

def send_pythons(request):
    return redirect("https://twitter.com/di_codes")
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jfcardenas •

Hello Dustin, thanks for the article, but I'm wondering about the send_email function, how does it work, is it a function of google cloud or gmail related?