Have any of you ever tried to run cron jobs, or scheduled tasks with replit?
Since repls sleep, you can't use inbuilt timer functions - meaning you'd have to use something like Uptime Robot to ping your site every x minutes. But - Uptime Robot always repeatedly pings your website, even if you only want to schedule a one time task, and you have to manually add a url to ping on their website.
Introducing kron
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kron lets you schedule tasks using a simple get request. It's as simple as this 👇
https://kron.4ty2.fun/?time=3600&url=https://google.comSend a request there, and 1 hour (3600 seconds) after this request is sent, https://google.com will recieve a get request from https://kron.4ty2.fun.
Check out more details on the github repo - and let me know if you have any questions.
Also - would y'all like to see a tutorial on this, along with a full example app?
A webcron also works.
Cool!
I say yes for the tutorial and full example app.
I agree with @TheDrone7 !