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.

Hi @skatkov ! This is a fun idea, thanks for sharing. In the meantime, have you looked into using Zapier to automate Netlify deploys? You can set up a Zap to POST to the Netlify webhook at a certain time to get this done. Here’s a good write-up about it: Auto trigger deploys on Netlify

fantastic resource, @lesliecdubs ! @skatkov , can you say a bit more about why you would want to trigger a rebuild every x hours? Maybe if we know more we can suggest more workarounds.

Yeah, tried it. But paying ~15$/m for ability to rebuild website every hour with Zapier seems like too much (I don’t use Zapier for anything else) :slight_smile: I wrote a simple cron service that does POST requests to rebuild my website.

Until Netlify has their own scheduler, https://www.easycron.com works really well and easy to setup. The free plan would easily allow for every couple hours. Just in case anyone is interested, here is how easy a job is to setup. [image] then make it a POST method [image] Get the build hook fro…

@skatkov Another cron alternative, if you want to build every hour for free, you can use IFTTT Date & Time to trigger the webhook

We have an open request to add scheduled deploys and functions (cron tasks), I’ve noted in that more people are asking for it. https://webtask.io/ is a popular option, but they aren’t accepting new signups right now. We use Zapier internally. Thanks for that suggestion @Jinksi .

Just to provide another solution to this, it is easy to use GitHub Actions to schedule builds. You only need to add 1 file to your GitHub repo: .github/workflows/main.yml # .github/workflows/main.yml name: Trigger Netlify Build on: schedule: # Run at 0815 daily - cron: '15 8 * * *' jobs…

I would also love this feature to be integrated into my Netlify Dashboard. I have tried using GitHub actions and it never seems to work correctly if at all. I have had nothing but trouble when I try it that way. I think it would be way better if there was something within my Netlify Dashboard to h…

I’m sure this was free when you posted this but it is apparently no longer available on the free plan. I tried everything exactly how you have it in your screenshots and when I click the “Create Cron Job” button, this pops up… [image]

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parkeragee May 31, 2019, 10:11pm 6

I would love the ability to configure individual Netlify functions to run as Cron jobs

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