hubot-cron adds a cronjob system to hubot to schedule messages on a specific date and time.
Add hubot-cron 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": ">= 0.1.0"
}
Add hubot-cron to external-scripts.json.
> cat external-scripts.json
> ["hubot-cron"]
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
miyagawa> hubot new job 0 9 * * 1-5 "Good morning everyone!"
hubot> Job 12345 created
miyagawa> hubot list jobs
hubot> (list of jobs)
miyagawa> hubot rm job 12345
hubot> Job 12345 removed
miyagawa> hubot tz job 12345 America/Los_Angeles
hubot> Job 12345 updated to use America/Los_Angeles
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.
You can schedule Hubot to run hubot tasks / commands / plugins by using the exec function to hubot-cron
miyagawa> hubot new job 0 9 * * 1-5 exec hubot ping
hubot> Job 45678 created
...
hubot> PONG
This will send the string hubot ping to hubot at the specified time and will be processed by hubot.
reminder.coffee in hubot-scripts.