Delay

Delay, pause, suspend, or have the execution of your workflow wait for as little as one millisecond, or as long as one year.

Integrate the Delay API with the Schedule API

Setup the Delay API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Schedule API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Delay and Schedule remarkably fast. Free for developers.

Delay Workflow with Delay API on Custom Interval from Schedule API
Schedule + Delay
 
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Delay Workflow with Delay API on Daily schedule from Schedule API
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Delay Workflow with Delay API on Monthly Schedule from Schedule API
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Delay Workflow with Delay API on Weekly schedule from Schedule API
Schedule + Delay
 
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Custom Interval from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every N hours, minutes or seconds.

 
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Daily schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow every day.

 
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Monthly Schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow on one or more days each month at a specific time (with timezone support).

 
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Weekly schedule from the Schedule API

Trigger your workflow on one or more days each week at a specific time (with timezone support).

 
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Delay Workflow with the Delay API

Delay the execution of your workflow for a specific amount of time (does not count against your compute time).

 
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Overview of Delay

The Delay API allows you to build workflows that wait a specified amount of
time before continuing. This can be useful for rate-limiting actions, or
waiting for an external event to occur.

Here are some examples of what you can build using the Delay API:

  • A workflow that sends a Slack message after a specified amount of time
  • A workflow that checks for new data from an external API every hour
  • A workflow that backs up a file to Dropbox every day

Connect Delay

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export default defineComponent({
  async run({steps, $}) {
    // Specify the amount of time to delay your workflow in milliseconds
    return $.flow.delay(5000)
  },
})

Overview of Schedule

With Schedule - A trigger provided by Pipedream - You can easily build
automated workflows that run on regular times or intervals. Some examples of
things that you can build using the Schedule API include:

  • Automated data retrieval from a third-party service, like pulling stats from
    your Salesforce account on a set schedule.
  • Uploading new data sets to a database with a predetermined interval.
  • Automatic emails to customers or leads at a certain time of the day.
  • Automating data analysis based on a set schedule.
  • Automatically optimizing social media postings according to a specified
    timeline.
  • Updating webpages at a certain interval with newly available content.
  • Re-running reports on a periodic basis.
  • Refreshing a cache of data at a given frequency.