Scheduled Cron Tasks

Schedule recurring background tasks to run automatically on your isolated PocketBase instances.

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Standard 5-Field Cron Expressions

Expression	Description
*/5 * * * *	Every 5 minutes
0 * * * *	Every hour at minute 0
0 0 * * *	Daily at midnight (00:00 UTC)
0 0 * * 0	Weekly on Sunday at midnight
0 0 1 * *	Monthly on the 1st day at midnight

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Example Worker Code

// PocketBase Goja runtime worker
$app.logger().info("[Cron] Starting nightly maintenance...");

// Find and delete expired tokens
const expiredTokens = $app.findRecordsByFilter(
  "_otps",
  "created < {:cutoff}",
  "-created",
  100,
  0,
  { cutoff: new Date(Date.now() - 24 * 3600 * 1000).toISOString() }
);

for (const rec of expiredTokens) {
  $app.delete(rec);
}

$app.logger().info("[Cron] Purged " + expiredTokens.length + " expired tokens.");