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ianm/url-cron
=============

Expose the Flarum scheduler to a URL for use on shared hosting envs

0.1.1(3y ago)1498MITPHP

Since May 10Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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URL Cron
========

[](#url-cron)

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A [Flarum](http://flarum.org) extension. Expose the Flarum scheduler to a URL for use on shared hosting envs

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install with composer:

```
composer require ianm/url-cron:"*"
```

Updating
--------

[](#updating)

```
composer update ianm/url-cron
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

When running Flarum on shared hosting, some providers do not allow CLI access in order to setup a cron job for the Flarum Scheduler, but instead offer a solution to trigger a URL in order to accomplish the same goal. This extension exposes `{FORUM_URL}/api/cron/trigger`, which in turn calls the CLI command `php flarum schedule:run`.

Currently, there is no protection on this endpoint, although authorization may be (optionally) added in the future as needs dictate.

Links
-----

[](#links)

- [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ianm/url-cron)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/imorland/flarum-ext-url-cron)

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 21% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity36

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% 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

2

Last Release

1150d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16573496?v=4)[IanM](/maintainers/imorland)[@imorland](https://github.com/imorland)

---

Top Contributors

[![imorland](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16573496?v=4)](https://github.com/imorland "imorland (4 commits)")[![flarum-bot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/39334649?v=4)](https://github.com/flarum-bot "flarum-bot (1 commits)")[![StyleCIBot](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11048387?v=4)](https://github.com/StyleCIBot "StyleCIBot (1 commits)")

---

Tags

flarum

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