Cloud Scheduling: Recurring Web Scraping

Every cloud task can run on a recurring schedule. You pick a preset when creating the task in the Run in Cloud wizard — choose Run & Schedule instead of Run Now — and the cloud re-runs the extraction for you from then on.

📸The schedule picker showing the presets from every 10 minutes to monthlyScreenshot coming soon

The 11 presets

Two things to know:

• Day-level schedules run at midnight UTC. Daily, multi-day, weekly, and monthly presets all fire at 00:00 UTC; a specific time of day isn't available.
• There is no custom cron field in the UI. If none of the presets fit exactly, choose the nearest one.

Regardless of the schedule, the task also runs immediately when you create it, so you can confirm it works before the first scheduled run.

What scheduling costs

Each scheduled run extracts pages, and each page consumes one cloud credit. A frequent schedule on a large URL list adds up — pick the slowest interval that still fits your use case.

Common use cases

• Price monitoring. Re-extract product pages daily or hourly and watch prices change over time in the dashboard, or push each run to Google Sheets.
• Lead list refresh. Re-run an Email Extractor or Google Maps task weekly so your list stays current without manual work.
• Content tracking. Check a news section, job board, or listing site every few hours and let a webhook notify your own tooling.

Managing schedules

Scheduled tasks, their run history, and per-run timelines all live in the cloud dashboard. That's where you review what each run produced and manage the automation going forward.

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