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/api/openai/sentiment
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Every 4 minutes
Next
in 1m 12s
/admin/api/2024-01/checkouts.json
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Every 10 min · Europe/Berlin
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in 3m 41s
/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1
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Mon 5am · Europe/London
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in 2d 14h
Live schedules · 7 rows · 1m to weekly
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Popular ways to use Crontap
Whether you're nudging GPT on a schedule, polling the Shopify Admin API every 10 minutes, or firing a Monday sales digest out of WordPress, Crontap handles the timing. Pick by outcome below, or jump straight to your stack.
Browse all use casesAutomated data sync between apps
Sync Airtable, Sheets, Notion and your database on a schedule.
Recurring reports & email digests
Trigger report generation and delivery daily, weekly or on any cron.
Scheduled social media posts
Post to Twitter, LinkedIn and more via webhook on a schedule.
Cache warming & pre-render triggers
Warm caches and trigger rebuilds so users never hit a cold page.
Scheduled team notifications
Post digests and standup prompts to Slack, Discord or Telegram.
Heartbeat & dead-man checks
Give every job a ping URL. Silence or a /fail ping becomes an alert.
API health checks on schedule
Ping endpoints every minute, record response times, alert on drift.
Scheduled AI / LLM jobs
Run recurring AI agents, summarizers and brand monitors on a cron.
Cron jobs for WordPress
Replace wp-cron with a real scheduler. Fires on idle sites.
Cron jobs for Shopify
Poll the Admin API every 10 minutes in your store's timezone.
Cron jobs for HubSpot workflows
Trigger your own backend on a clock, then push into HubSpot.
Vercel Cron alternative (sub-hour)
Every minute. No vercel.json redeploy. No 5-job cap.
Cron jobs for Google Cloud Run
Trigger your .run.app URL. No Cloud Scheduler. No IAM dance.
Cron jobs for Railway
Railway has no native scheduler. Crontap fills the gap.
Works with your platform
Works with the tools you already use
Every schedule can call a success or failure webhook. Pipe the result into Slack, Discord or Telegram for alerts. Pipe into Zapier, Make or n8n to chain real work. Use native Crontap Heartbeats to catch jobs that stop checking in. All at zero extra task cost per Crontap invocation.
Browse all platformsAutomation platforms
Alert channels
Schedule input
Every minute or the first Monday of the quarter. Plain English, classic cron, or both. Crontap parses whatever you throw at it and shows you exactly when it fires next.
Schedule
✓ Parsed to 0 9 * * 1-5
Next run tomorrow 09:30
Write "every 15 minutes" or "every weekday at 09:30" and Crontap parses it for you. You never have to touch cron syntax unless you want to.
Cron expression
Next runs
Beat Vercel Cron Hobby's hourly minimum and match Cloud Scheduler's 1 minute floor without the per-target IAM dance. See the next scheduled runs as you type.
Per-schedule timezone
Every schedule runs in its own IANA timezone. Fire reports at 5am Europe/London for UK customers and 9am America/New_York for US customers, from the same account. No server timezone juggling.
DIY vs Crontap
Every team eventually builds a clock. The left column is the standard list of things you would have to wire up. The right column is the same job on Crontap.
Observability
GitHub Actions cron silently runs 15 minutes late during peak. wp-cron silently skips when no visitor is on the site. Crontap does neither. Every run is logged, every failure alerts the channel you pick.
Test on demand
Response
{ "ok": true }
No need to wait for a schedule to fire. Run a test on demand and see the response, status code and duration instantly, so you ship green from the start.
502 Bad Gateway (12,003ms)
upstream: airtable.com timed out
→ alert sent to slack #oncall, email
When a call fails or times out, Crontap captures the status code, duration and error summary, then pages the channel you chose. Failed runs are retried automatically with exponential backoff before you get alerted.
Run history · last 14
Every run is in the schedule's history with status, duration, response size and error summary. Useful for debugging, compliance audits, and proving to your CTO that the 5am run actually ran.
Backup heartbeat
UpSilence becomes an alert
Alerts when a job never ran. Give the job a secret ping URL and let period plus grace turn silence or /fail into email and webhook alerts.
Side by side
Picking a scheduler usually comes down to five things: cadence, timezone, pricing, setup, and how easy it is to ship the first job. Here is how Crontap stacks up.
See how it comparesPatterns from real accounts
More patternsBack-end and front-end developers, sysadmins and operators have wanted a proper service for recurring webhooks since HTTP existed. Here are twelve patterns we see every week in real customer accounts.
0 5 * * 1*/10 * * * **/5 * * * *0 */12 * * **/30 9-18 * * *0 15 * * *0 8 1 * *0 17 * * **/1 * * * *0 22 * * 2*/4 * * * **/5 * * * *Real jobs, real teams
Shopify stores polling the Admin API every 10 minutes. WordPress digests firing at 5am Monday. Fintechs updating prices during market hours. Cloud Run teams skipping Cloud Scheduler entirely.
Many run faster than Vercel Hobby allows. Plenty replace wp-cron. Some fire every minute.
FAQ
Ready to fix it?
WordPress, Shopify, Railway, Cloud Run, Vercel, HubSpot, Ghost, your own box. If it answers HTTP, Crontap can drive it on a clock you can read, in the timezone that actually matters, and page you when something breaks.
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/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1
Schedule
"every 5 minutes"
Next
in 23s
From the blog
Read the blogTutorials on scheduling API calls, webhooks and automations, plus deep dives into cron syntax, timezones and reliability.
Failed scheduled calls now retry automatically with exponential backoff. See every attempt in history, tune the policy on Pro, or configure it through the API.
Transform a schedule's HTTP response with a plain-English prompt, return text or JSON, and forward it to Slack, Make, n8n, or your own endpoint. Test on any tier; saving is a Pro feature.
Uptime monitoring lives next to your scheduled jobs now: 1-minute checks on Pro, 90-day bar chart, email alerts on the up→down transition.
Crontap monitors uptime right next to the cron jobs you already run: one dashboard, one bill, one alert pipeline. Side-by-side with UptimeRobot, Better Stack, and Pingdom on intervals, history, and alert channels.
Vercel Cron caps Hobby at one run per day, only guarantees timing within the hour, is UTC only, and ties every schedule change to a redeploy. Here is the external cron pattern teams use to ship per-minute, timezone-aware schedules and one dashboard across projects without paying $20/mo per user for Pro.
wp-cron only fires on visitor traffic, which is why your 5am Monday digest lands at 8:14am. Here is the documented fix: disable wp-cron, point Crontap at wp-cron.php on a real clock, and get scheduled posts and WooCommerce renewals firing on time.
Cloud Scheduler costs $0.10 per job per month after the first 3 and asks for OIDC plus IAM bindings on every target. Here is the IAM-free pattern Cloud Run teams use to fire their .run.app URLs on a clock with one bearer token and one dashboard across every GCP project.
Heroku Scheduler caps you at three cadences and account-wide UTC, and spins a one-off dyno per run. Here is the external cron pattern that gives you any cron expression, per-schedule timezones, and zero per-execution dyno spin-up cost.
Shopify Flow fires on events, not on a clock. Here is the windowed GET pattern teams use to poll the Admin API on a per-shop, per-timezone cadence with Crontap, including rate-limit handling for multi-shop operators.
OpenAI batch work needs a clock, not a user session. Here is the scheduled HTTP-route pattern teams use to drain LLM batches at a sustainable rate inside OpenAI's rate limits, with per-task failure alerts.
Cron syntax without the math. Every pattern you're likely to reach for (every 5 minutes, weekdays, business hours, first of the month), with a practical example and a link to a free debugger.