strapi/website/documentation/concepts/cron.md

Scheduled tasks

CRON tasks allow you to schedule jobs (arbitrary functions) for execution at specific dates, with optional recurrence rules. It only uses a single timer at any given time (rather than reevaluating upcoming jobs every second/minute).

Configuration and usage

Configuration:

• Key: cron
• Environment: all
• Location: ./config/functions/cron.js
• Type: object

Example:

module.exports.cron = {

  /**
   * Every day at midnight.
   */

  '0 0 * * *': function () {
    strapi.log.info('Midnight !');
  }
};

Notes:

• The cron format consists of:
  1. second (0 - 59, optional)
  2. minute (0 - 59)
  3. hour (0 - 23)
  4. day of month (1 - 31)
  5. month (1 - 12)
  6. day of week (0 - 7)