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		nikon on June 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Structure My Flask Applications This is great. As a recently new Python and Flask user it's good to see how things are done in a nicer way than I have hacked together! Question: I have a web app built in flask, but I also require a worker process in the background that is actively scraping websites and inserting/ updating data into the DB via the ORM. How would you go about that in the cleanest way?

timmipetit on June 27, 2013 | [–]

You could use Celery: http://www.celeryproject.org/

mattupstate on June 27, 2013 | [–]

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/celery/

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