Schedule / Cron Service in NodeBB

[yasas]

Hi all,

I am developing a plugin that requires the use of a scheduler / cron service in NodeBB via a hook and update plugin-specific list in the DB.

I only need to update this list once a day.

I looked everywhere but I could not find a hook that facilitates this function.

I was wondering whether I've missed something or if there is a different way to do it.

Thanks in advance!

[baris]

We don't have a hook that fires every day, so you will have to create a cron in your plugin. Take a look at https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-archiver/blob/f61abd14f4b47af1f3121d4989b5cba9b2ff458d/index.js#L15-L18.

This plugin runs a cronjob and archives topics. You just need to check nconf.get('runJobs') like the plugin so only one of the nodebbs instances run the task and not all.

[yasas]

@baris Brilliant! I'll take a look at this. Thanks as always!