cron_build
Build a cron expression from English (Cron Translator)
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Convert an English schedule description into a cron expression. Rule-based, not a language model: it refuses phrases outside its grammar rather than guessing, and reports which words it did not use so you can tell whether it read you correctly.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: Cron has counter-intuitive rules: day-of-month and day-of-week are OR-ed, steps like */7 do not divide their field evenly, and February 30 never fires. Reasoning about an expression directly gets these wrong quietly.
Owned by Cron Translator at https://crontoenglish.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| phrase | string | yes | e.g. "every weekday at 9am". |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"phrase": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. \"every weekday at 9am\"."
}
},
"required": [
"phrase"
]
}