Introducing one second cron jobs
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Pipedream allows you to run hosted scheduled jobs — commonly called a "cron job" — for free. Before, these jobs could be run every 5 minutes.
Today, we're introducing up to one second cron jobs.
- Make HTTP requests, build an API or run code on a schedule
- Trigger workflows as frequently as once per second
- Available on our Advanced & Business plans
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How it works
Pipedream manages the servers where these cron jobs run, so you don't have to worry about setting up a server of your own or operating some service just to run code on a schedule.
You can write a cron job to:
- Send an HTTP request to any URL on a schedule
- Pull data from an API, process it, & send results to Slack or S3
- Run any Node.js code, using almost any npm package
Setting your schedule
First, select the Custom Interval trigger.
![A demo of sharing a workflow](https://gallery.eocampaign.com/ce951396-a346-11ed-a0ed-4f354f26462b%2F1689800698416-1689800697404.png)
Then, select your scheduling options:
- Every: run the job every second, minute or hour
- Daily / Weekly / Monthly: run the job at a specified time
- Cron Expression: schedule your job using a cron expression. For example, the expression 0 0 * * *
will run the job every day at midnight.
![A demo of sharing a workflow](https://gallery.eocampaign.com/ce951396-a346-11ed-a0ed-4f354f26462b%2F1689800524095-1689800523046.png)
Please reach out if you'd like to see any other improvements, or have other feature requests.
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Warm regards,
The Pipedream Team