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How to use Boto3 to update the scheduler of a crawler in AWS Glue Data Catalog
In this article, we will see how to update the scheduler of a crawler present in an AWS account.
Example
Problem Statement: Use boto3 library in Python to update the scheduler of a crawler.
Approach/Algorithm to solve this problem
Step 1: Import boto3 and botocore exceptions to handle exceptions.
Step 2: crawler_name and scheduler are the required parameters in this function.
The format of scheduler should be as cron(cron_expression). Cron_Expression can be written as (15 12 * * ? *), i.e., the crawler will run every day at 12:15UTC.
Step 3: Create an AWS session using boto3 lib. Make sure region_name is mentioned in the default profile. If it is not mentioned, then explicitly pass the region_name while creating the session.
Step 4: Create an AWS client for glue.
Step 5: Now use the update_crawler_schedule function and pass the parameter crawler_name as CrawlerName and scheduler as Schedule.
Step 6: It returns the response metadata and updates the schedule state of the crawler.
Step 7: Handle the generic exception if something went wrong while updating the scheduler of a crawler.
Example Code
The following code updates the scheduler of a crawler −
import boto3 from botocore.exceptions import ClientError def update_scheduler_of_a_crawler(crawler_name, scheduler) session = boto3.session.Session() glue_client = session.client('glue') try: response = glue_client.update_crawler_schedule(CrawlerName=crawler_name, Schedule=scheduler) return response except ClientError as e: raise Exception("boto3 client error in update_scheduler_of_a_crawler: " + e.__str__()) except Exception as e: raise Exception("Unexpected error in update_scheduler_of_a_crawler: " + e.__str__()) print(update_scheduler_of_a_crawler("Data Dimension","cron(15 12 * * ? *)"))
Output
{'ResponseMetadata': {'RequestId': '73e50130-*****************8e', 'HTTPStatusCode': 200, 'HTTPHeaders': {'date': 'Sun, 28 Mar 2021 07:26:55 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.1', 'content-length': '2', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'x-amzn-requestid': '73e50130-***************8e'}, 'RetryAttempts': 0}}