niche · 0.6 capability schema

Cron

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Providers using this tag (5)

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Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon EventBridge SchedulerAmazon Web ServicesEvent-DrivenScheduling1 API61.7
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
HookPulseMonitoringObservabilityWebhook1 API47.4QStashMessage QueueTask SchedulingServerlessHTTP Messaging1 API46.0
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Google Cloud SchedulerAutomationGoogle CloudJob1 API28.1
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface
DeferBackground JobsDeveloper-FirstNode.js1 API9.7

APIs with this tag (12)

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Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Modal Cron and Scheduled FunctionsRun functions on a recurring schedule using modal.Period or modal.Cron passed to @app.function(schedule=......64.5Modal Cron APISchedules functions to run on cron expressions with retries, time-zone awareness, and job history.64.5ThingSpeak TimeControl APICron-style scheduler that fires ThingHTTP, TalkBack, or MATLAB Analysis actions at a chosen time, recurring...59.2Freestyle Cron APIThe Cron API from Freestyle — 5 operation(s) for cron.58.1
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Encore Infrastructure APIEncore's Infrastructure from Code API lets developers declare cloud infrastructure resources — PostgreSQL d...52.5QuantCDN Cron APIScheduled task management42.9
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Drone Cron APICron job scheduling for automated builds.39.1Drone Server REST APIBearer-token authenticated REST API exposed by every Drone server. Endpoints under /api/ for repos, builds,...39.1EAS Workflows APICI/CD automation service for React Native apps supporting scheduled cron jobs, Slack integration, and autom...35.6EasyCronEasyCron is used to run automated tasks, making API calls on a variety of schedules, using all of the APIs ...33.3
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
Nitric Schedule ResourceSDK resource for declaring time-based and cron schedules in code. Nitric provisions the underlying schedule...22.9Moodle Task APIExecutes background jobs on a schedule or as one-off operations, allowing plugins to defer long-running wor...13.2

Companies reaching this through an API (10)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Cron” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

APIs.io Engineering Platform Drone Encore Expo Freestyle Modal Moodle Nitric QuantCDN ThingSpeak

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.8
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
47.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
4.9
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Queues 5 co-occurrences Serverless 7 co-occurrences Scheduling 7 co-occurrences Webhook 5 co-occurrences

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Provider tag5
Api tag12
Openapi tag3
Openapi op tag21

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