Is Celery the best option?

I am working on using the DataSift api to collect social media posts as part of my project. 

I have a page which lists defined searches, and I want to be able to start searches from here, and stop them when the user no longer requires them - that is, the search should continue until it is stopped, even if the user who has started it logs out - in fact, it will be most useful if it runs continuously for more than a week. 

I believe this needs an asynchronous task manager; would Celery be appropriate for this task, both for starting and stopping the process?  And secondly, can I set up and use Celery on Windows7 (which I am using for development)?  Is there anything else that would be more appropriate?

Cheers, N//

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