python-publicholiday

A cli utility to help run things or not run things based on if it is a public holiday. The command exits 0 if today is a public holiday and exits 1 if not.

Installation: pip install publicholiday

Examples usage:

$ publicholiday --help
Usage: publicholiday [OPTIONS]

  Is it a public holiday?

Options:
  -c, --country TEXT  Supported country name or code.
  --help              Show this message and exit.

# Run a script on a public holiday
$ publicholiday && /thing/to/run.sh

# Run a script on all days that are not public holidays
$ publicholiday || /thing/to/run.sh

By default publicholiday will check against UK public holidays. You can change this by passing a supported country:

# Run a script on a Argentinian public holiday
$ publicholiday -c Argentina && /thing/to/run.sh

# Run a script on all days that are not US public holidays
$ publicholiday -c US || /thing/to/run.sh

This utility uses the holidays pip package, to find out if your country is supported see: https://pypi.org/project/holidays/