Gatsby - Schedule tasks or setIntervals on the server?

[hartey11]

Hi, is it possible to schedule task / run code at setIntervals on the server? I’m looking to automate refreshing my instagram access token which needs to be done every 60 days
and looks like it can be achieved with a simple API call.

Long-Lived Tokens - Instagram Platform - Documentation - Meta for Developers

[perry]

hi there, we don’t support this natively, I think. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be done - there are some suggestions here on how to make this work:

What Function-ality would you like to see?

+1 to this — lack of scheduled functions is currently holding us back. AWS Lambda natively supports scheduled events, but unfortunately Netlify’s wrapper doesn’t expose that functionality.

Scheduling builds and deploys with Netlify

It’s not a very exciting feature and probably would not look as glorious on a roadmap. Yeat, it would make my life with Netlify easier… I’d really love to have an ability to rebuild sites every X hours.

Can I schedule my site to build on a specific schedule?

Currently, my site builds and deploys automatically when I commit to my repo. However, I have some date based functions that I’d like to update weekly - is there a way to have my site auto build/deploy on a time basis?

[jonsully]

GitHub actions might be your friend here you can have them run on a cron interval and do your API key updates and such

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Jon