Bunnycron

Bunnycron is a job scheduling module trigged by your node.js process. Bunnycron will schedule a job based on a cron syntax textfile in your project directory, so you can keep your job scheduling definition in your git repository. With a lock machanism provided by Redis, Bunnycron will prevent the same job running multiple times within a cluster. It provides a clean user interface to monitor your jobs and their statuses.

Installation

Install via npm:

npm install bunnycron

User Interface

Schedule Overview

Bunnycron provides a clean user-interface for viewing your scheduled jobs.

Schedule Log

The logging system allows you to see how your job processed

Cronfile

First create a Cronfile file in your root directory of your project.

An example of Cronfile with the same syntax of your familiar Crontab

00 30 12 * * * node backup_database.js

*/10 * * * * * ./checkuptime.sh

00 30 11 * * 1-5 curl -o aapl.html http://www.jitta.com/stock/aapl

Available Cron Patterns

Asterisk. E.g. *
Ranges. E.g. 1-3,5
Steps. E.g. */2

Cronfile Examples

*/10 * * * * 1-2  echo "Run every 10 seconds on Monday and Tuesday"
00 */2 * * * *  echo "Run every 2 minutes everyday"
00 30 09-10 * * * echo "Run at 09:30 and 10:30 everyday"
00 30 08 10 06 * echo "Run at 08:30 on 10th June"

- 00 for Sunday or 24.00

Read more cron patterns here.

Running a Cronjob

var bunny = require('bunnycron')();
bunny.startCron();

Redis Connection Settings

var options = {
  redis: {
    port: 1234,
    host: '10.12.33.44',
    auth: 'fj2ifjeo2j'
  }
};
 
var bunny = require('bunnycron')(options);
bunny.startCron();

when required bunnycron module you can pass options in an object with the following possible properties.

• cronFile : the directory path to Cronfile ex. ./path/to/dir
• redis : by default, Bunnycron will connect to Redis using the client default settings (port defaults to 6379 and host defaults to 127.0.0.1, prefix defaults to bunny)
• prefix : defaults to bunny. Custom redis predix
• debug : send log data to stdout.

User-Interface

To view your scheduled jobs UI. You can use bunny.app within your existing express.js application.

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var bunny = require('bunnycron')()
bunny.startCron();
app.use(bunny.app);
// app.use('/bunny/', bunny.app) or custom base url
app.listen(3000);
 

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Jitta <[e-mail]>

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