Taro

Automate recurring cron jobs in minutes

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Automate recurring cron jobs in minutes

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Setting up cron jobs is annoying. We’re trying to make it super easy to write a one-off script, put it on a schedule, and start monitoring it right away!

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This looks very interesting and promising. Will I be able to do things like scrape tweets from specific Twitter accounts?

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6yr ago

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@qhameem we might add some scrapers for some of the common use cases eventually, but for now you would have to write your own scraper or request an API key from Twitter if you wanted to aggregate tweets :)

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6yr ago

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As developers, every now and then we come up with cool ideas of things to automate. There are lots of tools out there for managing recurring jobs, but many of them are either designed for more complex use cases (e.g. Airflow) or treat it as an afterthought (e.g. Heroku Scheduler). If I want to quickly hack together a one-off script and set it up to run on a schedule, it usually takes some Googling to remind myself how to do it properly. We built Taro to solve that problem! We would love to hear your feedback on what we have so far, as well as your experiences with cron/recurring jobs. We’re also quite interested in hearing what kind of integrations would be useful for a service like this. (We’re currently looking into things like analytics, error handling, alerting, and NoSQL storage.)

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6yr ago

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Update: we're also exploring creating an open source client to handle things like logging, alerting, and storage super easily (as long as you have an API key from us :)) Check out our scratchpad of potential TODOs: https://gist.github.com/reichert...

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6yr ago

@alex_reichert Hi Alex, is Taro gone for good? could you maybe open-source it?

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5yr ago

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@fabio_pedrosa unfortunately yes -- I'll let you know if I open source it though! just need to double check that no API keys are exposed anywhere :P

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5yr ago

@fabio_pedrosa @alex_reichert that would be great, thanks! I'd love to self-host this, as it fits my use-case, as did yours.

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5yr ago

Nice design and brilliant idea! I look forward trying it out, however there is an alert in the sign up page. Is this expected? Dev Keys One or more of your connections are currently using Auth0 development keys and should not be used in production.

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6yr ago

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Hey @liusy182! This is a known issue which we are planning on fixing if there is enough interest in the product :)

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6yr ago

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@alex_reichert This looks useful. Normally if I have to setup "easy" crons normally I use AWS Lambda, but this is fast and good for prototyping / proof of concepts.

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6yr ago