create_task
Create or update a scheduled task
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Register a schedule against a destination you have already verified. Idempotent on "name": the same name updates the existing task instead of creating a second one. Creating costs nothing; each delivery ATTEMPT costs one credit.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | yes | Your name for the task. Unique among your live tasks; creating with an existing name updates it. |
| cron | string | yes | 5 fields, UTC only, one minute at the finest. Operators: * a-b a,b */n a-b/n. Names: SUN-SAT (day), JAN-DEC (month). Macros: @yearly @annually @monthly @weekly @daily @midnight @hourly. Day-of-week is 0-6 with 0 = Sunday; 7 also means Sunday. Write days as names (MON-FRI). Numbers differ between schedulers: Quartz, AWS EventBridge and Cloudflare number Sunday as 1, we and croniter as 0. Translated for you: "?". "?" as a whole day-of-month or day-of-week field becomes "*". A NUMERIC day-of-week next to "?" is refused, because "?" means the expression was written where Sunday is 1. Refused: Quartz L, Quartz W, Quartz #, six fields (seconds), seven fields (year), @reboot, @every, CRON_TZ= prefixes, time zones of any kind — each with a code saying what to send instead. |
| url | string | yes | The https:// destination. It must already be registered and verified — see register_destination. |
| method | string | no | HTTP method of the delivery. Default POST. GET and HEAD carry no body. |
| timeoutMs | integer | no | How long we wait for your server, 250-2000 ms. Answer 202 and do the work behind it. |
| headers | object | no | Headers we send with the delivery. Stored ENCRYPTED at rest — put credentials here, never in the body. |
| body | any | no | The body we send. Stored in the clear, so it must not carry credentials. A non-string is serialized as JSON. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Your name for the task. Unique among your live tasks; creating with an existing name updates it."
},
"cron": {
"type": "string",
"description": "5 fields, UTC only, one minute at the finest. Operators: * a-b a,b */n a-b/n. Names: SUN-SAT (day), JAN-DEC (month). Macros: @yearly @annually @monthly @weekly @daily @midnight @hourly. Day-of-week is 0-6 with 0 = Sunday; 7 also means Sunday. Write days as names (MON-FRI). Numbers differ between schedulers: Quartz, AWS EventBridge and Cloudflare number Sunday as 1, we and croniter as 0. Translated for you: \"?\". \"?\" as a whole day-of-month or day-of-week field becomes \"*\". A NUMERIC day-of-week next to \"?\" is refused, because \"?\" means the expression was written where Sunday is 1. Refused: Quartz L, Quartz W, Quartz #, six fields (seconds), seven fields (year), @reboot, @every, CRON_TZ= prefixes, time zones of any kind — each with a code saying what to send instead."
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The https:// destination. It must already be registered and verified — see register_destination."
},
"method": {
"type": "string",
"description": "HTTP method of the delivery. Default POST. GET and HEAD carry no body."
},
"timeoutMs": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "How long we wait for your server, 250-2000 ms. Answer 202 and do the work behind it."
},
"headers": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Headers we send with the delivery. Stored ENCRYPTED at rest — put credentials here, never in the body."
},
"body": {
"description": "The body we send. Stored in the clear, so it must not carry credentials. A non-string is serialized as JSON."
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"cron",
"url"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}