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โฐ Scheduled Events

Cron Triggers

scheduled events are automatically dispatched according to the specified cron triggers:

$ miniflare --cron "15 * * * *" --cron "45 * * * *" # or -t
wrangler.toml
[triggers]
crons = ["15 * * * *", "45 * * * *"]
const mf = new Miniflare({
crons: ["15 * * * *", "45 * * * *"],
});

HTTP Triggers

Because waiting for cron triggers is annoying, you can also make HTTP requests to /cdn-cgi/mf/scheduled to trigger scheduled events, when using the CLI or starting an HTTP server with createServer:

$ curl "http://localhost:8787/cdn-cgi/mf/scheduled"

To simulate different values of scheduledTime and cron in the dispatched event, use the time and cron query parameters:

$ curl "http://localhost:8787/cdn-cgi/mf/scheduled?time=1000"
$ curl "http://localhost:8787/cdn-cgi/mf/scheduled?cron=*+*+*+*+*"

Dispatching Events

When using the API, the dispatchScheduled function can be used to dispatch scheduled events to your worker. This can be used for testing responses. It takes optional scheduledTime and cron parameters, which default to the current time and the empty string respectively. It will return a promise which resolves to an array containing data returned by all waited promises:

import { Miniflare } from "miniflare";
const mf = new Miniflare({
script: `
addEventListener("scheduled", (event) => {
event.waitUntil(Promise.resolve(event.scheduledTime));
event.waitUntil(Promise.resolve(event.cron));
});
`,
});
let waitUntil = await mf.dispatchScheduled();
console.log(waitUntil[0]); // Current time in milliseconds
console.log(waitUntil[1]); // ""
waitUntil = await mf.dispatchScheduled(1000);
console.log(waitUntil[0]); // 1000
console.log(waitUntil[1]); // ""
waitUntil = await mf.dispatchScheduled(1000, "* * * * *");
console.log(waitUntil[0]); // 1000
console.log(waitUntil[1]); // "* * * * *"