execution_date in airflow: need to access as a variable

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The BashOperator‘s bash_command argument is a template. You can access execution_date in any template as a datetime object using the execution_date variable. In the template, you can use any jinja2 methods to manipulate it.

Using the following as your BashOperator bash_command string:

# pass in the first of the current month
some_command.sh {{ execution_date.replace(day=1) }}

# last day of previous month
some_command.sh {{ execution_date.replace(day=1) - macros.timedelta(days=1) }}

If you just want the string equivalent of the execution date, ds will return a datestamp (YYYY-MM-DD), ds_nodash returns same without dashes (YYYYMMDD), etc. More on macros is available in the Api Docs.

Your final operator would look like:

command = """curl -XPOST '%(hostname)s:8000/run?st={{ ds }}'""" % locals()
t1 = BashOperator( task_id='rest-api-1', bash_command=command, dag=dag)

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