hubot-cron-commands adds a cronjob system to hubot to schedule commands to be run by hubot on a specific date and time.
based heavily on / forked from miyagawa's hubot-cron.
Add hubot-cron-commands to your package.json, run npm install and add hubot-cron to external-scripts.json.
Add hubot-cron to your package.json dependencies.
"dependencies": {
"hubot-cron-commands": "^0.2.0"
}
Add hubot-cron-commands to external-scripts.json.
> cat external-scripts.json
> ["hubot-cron-commands"]
If you want to specify timezones, you'll need to install the time module or place an entry for it in your package.json file.
npm install time
user> hubot new job "0 9 * * 1-5" "hubot echo Good morning everyone!"
hubot> Job 12345 created
...
hubot> Attempting to execute job 12345, crontab "0 9 * * 1-5" hubot echo Good morning everyone!
hubot> Good morning everyone!
user> hubot list jobs
hubot> (list of jobs)
user> hubot tz job 12345 America/Los_Angeles
hubot> Job 12345 updated to use America/Los_Angeles
user> hubot silence 12345
...
hubot> Good morning everyone!
user> hubot rm job 12345
hubot> Job 12345 removed
You can use any node-cron compatible crontab format to schedule messages. Registered message will be sent to the same channel where you created a job.
To persist the cron job in the hubot restart, you're recommended to use redis to persist Hubot brain.
Timezones are specified in tzdata format.