Streamlit app keeps auto refreshing after around 30 minutes when hosted with streamlit cloud

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When launching our app via streamlit cloud we seem to experience an annoying bug. The site automatically refreshes somewhere between 15-30 minutes. This is a serious problem for us as we are trying to create a platform that is used for collecting data and doing some statistics on the users. (This is only done on voluntary users! We are doing a research project testing out ways to improve learning rates). Now when the page automatically refresh we lose all the states and information of the user(they are anonymous and seperated by a randomly generated id upon launch) and it goes back to square one as if the user just opened the application on their browser.

I can’t seem to find a way to work around this and there seems to have been a lot of people having trouble with this in the past, yet all i can find is some devs saying it was a bug in 1.9 and 1.10 and that it is now solved. I am not entirely sure of what version streamlit cloud launches in or how to check it, but locally we all have streamlit 1.16 .

I have been to a few different drafts trying to find a solution for me and my groups problem

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Are you specifying a version of Streamlit for your deployed app?

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No we do not. However we do not see which version we should specify it to as we have seen many other people reporting the same issue with versions up to 1.20

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Hello! I’m experiencing a similar issue too. My Streamlit Cloud App is supposed to process some data from Google Drive and upload them back, showing the progress through a bar. At the end, the app should print overall statistics and upload them as well. What happens is that on average after ~30 minutes, the frontend refreshes automatically (and the bar disappears), while the backend continues to run. At the end, I have the all the files are still correctly processed and uploaded, but the final output summary is not printed, nor uploaded because of this.

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if it is any help, we solved the problem by storing all our session states in a data base regularly (obviously overriding old ones to save space), and then we make the program load the stored session upon start up

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Oh ok, thank you very much! So there’s currently no solution to keep the current session up and running til the backend is done with the computation

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This has been an issue that I’ve seen come up a lot and I’m still a little fuzzy on the details myself. However, I’ve heard that having a file uploader on the page may exacerbate the issue (or possibly be one of the root causes). So, this is a wild shot in the dark, but…

If you happen to have a page with a file uploader that’s the one resetting on you…can you shuffle the file to session state so that you can go to a different page to perform that long process. My hypothesis is that reducing the complexity of what Streamlit is trying to “keep active” (widgets) while performing the longer process may help.

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