This example shows how to run a Python script as cron job with GitHub Actions. It calls an API once a week (could be any schedule you want), logs the response in status.log, and automatically pushes the changes to this repo.

• Implement your script in main.py
• Inspect and configure cron job in GitHub Action .github/workflows/actions.yml
• It can install and use third party packages from requirements.txt
• Secret environment variables can be used. Set secrets in Settings/Secrets/Actions -> 'New repository secret'. Use the same secret name inside actions.yml and main.py

• https://github.com/actions/setup-python
• python -m venv venv
• . venv/bin/activate

• pipenv install -r requirements.txt
• pipenv shell