How to configure Celery with Django

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I need to run background tasks in Django. How do I set up Celery?

layla_web · Accepted Answer

# celery.py in project folder
from celery import Celery
import os

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'myproject.settings')
app = Celery('myproject')
app.config_from_object('django.conf:settings', namespace='CELERY')
app.autodiscover_tasks()

# settings.py
CELERY_BROKER_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'

# tasks.py
from celery import shared_task

@shared_task
def send_email_async(user_id):
    # Send email logic
    pass

# Usage
send_email_async.delay(user_id)

How to configure Celery with Django

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