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bentools/natural-cron-expression
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A parser that converts natural language to a cron expression

v1.0.2(10y ago)195.3k↓48.3%22MITPHPPHP >=5.4

Since May 6Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Natural cron expression
=======================

[](#natural-cron-expression)

A parser that converts natural (English) language to a cron expression.

Installation##
--------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require bentools/natural-cron-expression

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use BenTools\NaturalCronExpression\NaturalCronExpressionParser;

NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('each day'); // 0 0 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day'); // 0 0 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('daily'); // 0 0 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 3 AM'); // 0 3 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('5am'); // 0 5 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('daily at 5am'); // 0 5 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every friday at 5am'); // 0 5 * * 5
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('daily at 17:30'); // 30 17 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every week'); // 0 0 * * 0
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('weekly'); // 0 0 * * 0
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every minute'); // * * * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 5 minutes'); // */5 * * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 30 minutes'); // */30 * * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every month'); // 0 0 1 * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('monthly'); // 0 0 1 * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every Monday'); // 0 0 * * 1
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every Wednesday'); // 0 0 * * 3
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every Friday'); // 0 0 * * 5
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every hour'); // 0 * * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 6 hours'); // 0 */6 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('hourly'); // 0 * * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every year'); // 0 0 1 1 *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('yearly'); // 0 0 1 1 *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('annually'); // 0 0 1 1 *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 9am'); // 0 9 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 5pm'); // 0 17 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 5:45pm'); // 45 17 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 17:00'); // 0 17 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every day at 17:25'); // 25 17 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('5:15am every Tuesday'); // 15 5 * * 2
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('7pm every Thursday'); // 0 19 * * 4
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every May'); // 0 0 1 5 *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every December'); // 0 0 1 12 *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('midnight'); // 0 0 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('midnight on tuesdays'); // 0 0 * * 2
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 5 minutes on Tuesdays'); // */5 * * * 2
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('noon'); // 0 12 * * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 25th'); // 0 0 25 * *
NaturalCronExpressionParser::fromString('every 3rd of January'); // 0 0 3 1 *
```

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

Check out phpunit tests in /tests

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 80% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity32

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

3664d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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