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soccerway
soccerway

Reputation: 11991

How to run cron jobs in github action for a particular day and time

How to run cron jobs automatically every Thursday at 10:30 am Australian Standard time irrespective of any other action? I have tried the below, but not sure if it's running. Could someone please advise?

I have the schedule.yml file in my branch. Should I add the schedule.yml somewhere else?

Branch: cypress-schedule-test-ci-100

.github\workflows\schedule.yml

name: Cypress E2E Tests
on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "30 10 * * 4"
env:
  CYPRESS_BOOKING_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_BOOKING_PASSWORD }}
  CYPRESS_BOOKING_FREE_USER_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.CYPRESS_BOOKING_FREE_USER_PASSWORD }}

jobs:
  install:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Install dependencies
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
        with:
          # just perform install
          runTests: false
  tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    needs: install
    steps:
      - name: Check out code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Install dependencies
        uses: cypress-io/github-action@v2
        with:
          # perform installation
          runTests: false
      - name: Run E2E tests
        run: npm run cy:run -- --env grepTags="@MainUITests+-@Failing",ENV="qaserver" --browser chrome
      - name: Upload Results
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        if: failure()
        with:
          name: cypress-screenshots
          path: cypress/screenshots
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        if: always()
        with:
          name: cypress-videos
          path: cypress/videos

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7689

Answers (1)

Azeem
Azeem

Reputation: 14637

While working with the schedule cron job, the following points need to keep in mind:

You can schedule a workflow to run at specific UTC times using POSIX cron syntax.

So, you might need to adjust it according to your time zone.

Scheduled workflows run on the latest commit on the default or base branch.

It should be scheduled for the default branch e.g. main. Apparently, this seems to be the reason why your scheduled job isn't working.

And,

Note: The schedule event can be delayed during periods of high loads of GitHub Actions workflow runs. High load times include the start of every hour. To decrease the chance of delay, schedule your workflow to run at a different time of the hour.

You need to account for such delays due to high loads.

Upvotes: 1

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