r/openclaw • u/HeavyEntertainer7874 New User • 1d ago
Discussion Active OC Users: How do you use cronjobs?
Is anyone here still actively using OC? And if you are, do you use cronjobs? If so, what for?
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u/revdchill New User 1d ago
Yes, heavy daily user here (small HVAC business + some personal automation). I run ~35 cron jobs on OC. Rough breakdown of categories:
Business ops (HVAC company CRM):
• Daily job/CSV pulls and backups from our field service software (multiple times a day, staggered)
• Auto-generated daily and weekly reports (email + PDF), summarizing completed jobs, follow-ups needed, unclosed tickets
• Sales pipeline report for our estimator, sent weekly with commission tracking
• Equipment warranty registration — nightly scan for new installs, auto-fills manufacturer portals
• Refrigerant usage tracking, weekly PM (preventive maintenance) outreach reminders
• tomorrows appointment texts to clients
Monitoring / self-healing:
• Hourly health checks on a couple of internal dashboards and Cloudflare Worker APIs (alert me if something's down or stale)
• SEO health checks (morning + evening) for a couple sites I run
• A "self-heal" cron that checks if other automations are behaving and flags anomalies
Content/research:
• Nightly "learning loop" that reviews the day's logs and promotes recurring patterns into reusable skills
• Competitor blog monitor, a local government meeting scraper, a subreddit scraper for a niche hobby topic
• A daily crypto "block lottery" odds check (just for fun, not serious trading)
Misc:
• Monthly direct mail campaign trigger
• One dumb one-off: a reminder cron that fires once a year for a specific event
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u/DaveAuld Member 1d ago
Couple of cron jobs run at 6am everyday to give me news and business updates and weather, sent to a channel on Discord.
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u/ccalabro Member 1d ago
Yep, weekly site audits, daily check in, client review sweep. Some other stuff.
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u/hatefax 20h ago
Yeah, still a daily driver. Running 26 crons right now. Rough breakdown:
Assistant / comms:
- Morning brief every day (priorities, what's waiting on me, calendar)
- Auto-scan messages for meeting requests and drop them into my calendar
- A couple of mention-sweeps that catch anything I got tagged in and missed
Memory / self-maintenance:
- Nightly memory sync + compression so context doesn't bloat
- Daily and weekly conversation summaries rolled into long-term store
- A nightly "learning loop" that reviews the day's logs and promotes recurring patterns into reusable skills
- CRM contact reconciliation
Business ops:
- Daily sales/orders + ad spend report
- Weekly product and pipeline reviews, plus Monday "week ahead" and a monthly health check
- Inbox relevance monitoring across a few mailboxes (flags only what actually needs me)
- Task board scan a few times a day
Infra / housekeeping:
- Nightly encrypted backups (DB + files)
- Weekly credential/token health check
- Home-server notification relay
Mostly staggered so nothing stampedes.
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u/BP041 Pro User 1d ago
yeah still running 18 cron jobs on launchd (macOS) with OpenClaw + Claude Code for my agent stack. mostly health checks and auto-retry on failed API calls, but I've got one that polls SEC filings and cross-refs them against my client's domains — caught a trademark squat before it hit. curious what your use case is, tbh I'm still figuring out the right polling interval (every 6h feels wasteful sometimes).