Suggest me a service to send periodic HTTP requests
Hello there,
I want to have a way to periodically send requests to trigger a Firebase lambda.
Does anyone know of a good service to do this? Hopefully with a free tier.
I could do it as a cron job on my local machine but I'd rather just have a service take care of that to me.
Every cloud platform already has a way to do this, your best bet is to use the GCP scheduled functions Since it seems you are using GCP.
If you want something outside of GCP, you could use GitHub Actions. If you keep the repo public, Actions are free. And you can schedule them just like cron.
You could write a basic Github Actions script that runs on a cron
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#scheduled-events
This might help https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/schedule-functions
Try this: http://uptime.onl/
It makes a request every 5 minutes
Found this on the IH product page:
https://uptimemate.com
@frankspinnl
Thank you for mentioning us 🙏