hubot-schedule
[Japanese: README_ja.md]
hubot-schedule is a message scheduler runs on hubot.
It allows you to schedule a message in both cron-style
and datetime-based
format pattern.
It is for time-based scheduling, not interval-based scheduling.
Since hubot-schedule uses node-schedule to manage schedule, some of the cron features are not supported.
Please see node-schedule for more details.
This script is greatly inspired by hubot-cron.
At first, I wanted a datetime-based scheduler.
As I start developing this, I noticed that node-schedule also suppports cron-style scheduling, so I changed my mind to develop a scheduler that supports both cron-style and datetime-based format.
Installation
Add hubot-schedule
to your package.json
.
"dependencies": {
"hubot-schedule": "~0.1.2"
}
Run npm install
.
$ npm install
Add hubot-schedule
to external-scripts.json
.
> cat external-scripts.json
> ["hubot-schedule"]
Usage
Hubot> hubot help schedule
Hubot schedule [add|new] "<datetime pattern>" <message> - Schedule a message that runs on a specific date and time
Hubot schedule [add|new] "<cron pattern>" <message> - Schedule a message that runs recurrently
Hubot schedule [cancel|del|delete|remove] <id> - Cancel the schedule
Hubot schedule [upd|update] <id> <message> - Update scheduled message
Hubot schedule list - List all scheduled messages
Hubot> hubot schedule add "2015-01-16 10:00" Let's release this script!
6738: Schedule created
Hubot> hubot schedule add "0 10 * * 1-5" Don't forget to brew coffee :)
9735: Schedule created
Hubot> hubot schedule list
6738: [ Fri Jan 16 2015 10:00:00 GMT+0900 (JST) ] #Shell Let's release this script!
9735: [ 0 10 * * 1-5 ] #Shell Don't forget to brew coffee :)
Hubot> hubot schedule update 6738 Let's release this module and share with everyone!
6738: Scheduled message updated
Hubot> hubot schedule list
6738: [ Fri Jan 16 2015 10:00:00 GMT+0900 (JST) ] #Shell Let's release this script and share with everyone!
9735: [ 0 10 * * 1-5 ] #Shell Don't forget to brew coffee :)
Let's release this script and share with everyone!
(Hubot posts the message at 2015-01-16 10:00:00 and schedule will be removed automatically)
Hubot> hubot schedule del 9735
9735: Schedule canceled
Hubot> hubot schedule list
Message is not scheduled
Hubot> hubot schedule add "0 10 * * 1-5" hubot image me coffee
9735: Schedule created
(hubot can process messages sent by hubot-schedule, so you can ask hubot to do something at the scheduled time, like post an image of coffee. You can disable it by setting environment variable `HUBOT_SCHEDULE_DONT_RECEIVE=1`)
If you need to persist scheduled messages, use hubot-brain persistent module like hubot-redis-brain.
Setting environment variable HUBOT_SCHEDULE_DEBUG=1
will show some debug messages.
Copyright and license
Copyright 2015 Masakazu Matsushita.
Licensed under the [MIT License] [license].