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Cron Expression Generator & Parser

Build and decode cron expressions using interactive schedules or plain text, featuring instant human-readable explanations and a preview of upcoming execution timestamps.

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Cron Expression

→ Runs every 15 minutes

*/15
Minute 0–59
*
Hour 0–23
*
Day 1–31
*
Month 1–12
*
Weekday 0–6

Next 8 Executions

1

Thu, Aug 6 09:30 AM

in 6m

2

Thu, Aug 6 09:45 AM

in 21m

3

Thu, Aug 6 10:00 AM

in 36m

4

Thu, Aug 6 10:15 AM

in 51m

5

Thu, Aug 6 10:30 AM

in 1h

6

Thu, Aug 6 10:45 AM

in 1h

7

Thu, Aug 6 11:00 AM

in 2h

8

Thu, Aug 6 11:15 AM

in 2h

Code Snippets & Examples

Copy-paste ready code implementations for your project:

Node.js (node-cron)
const cron = require('node-cron');

// Runs every 15 minutes
cron.schedule('*/15 * * * *', () => {
  console.log('Running task every 15 minutes');
});
Python (apscheduler)
from apscheduler.schedulers.blocking import BlockingScheduler

sched = BlockingScheduler()

@sched.scheduled_job('cron', minute='*/15')
def scheduled_job():
    print('Executed every 15 minutes')

sched.start()

Întrebări Frecvente

How do cron expressions work?

A standard cron expression has 5 fields: minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day of month (1-31), month (1-12), and day of week (0-6 where 0 is Sunday).