Windows Task Scheduler Woes
My favorite cartoonist has a website where he displays daily selections from his archive. I want this in my life but I can’t be bothered to go to a website everyday. So several years ago, I wrote a python script to take screenshots of the cartoons and email them to me (scraping didn’t work). The script was scheduled through Windows Task Scheduler. Then I changed computers, brought over the code, and have been struggling for days to get the task scheduler to work. The task wouldn’t run the python script directly. I wrote .bat and .ps1 files to try and activate the virtual environment, then run the scripts. I fixed that, then the images were downloaded as black images. Over and over, problem after problem, including changing my password and getting locked out of my computer (… cool hack to restore to come). ...