Package to Translate a Cron to a "Simpler" Human Readable Format?
I've Been Looking All over the Internet for an Npm Package That Could Achieve This, but I Haven't Been Able to Find One. What I'm Looking for Is Quite Simple...
I've been looking all over the internet for an NPM package that could achieve this, but I haven't been able to find one.
What I'm looking for is quite simple on the surface. A cron library that can translate a monthly cron job to human-readable text, while keeping it simple. So for example: if I put in 0 0 14 * *, I want it to translate to "Monthly". Instead, this translates to "At 00:00 on day-of-month 14." which is an awkward string to display to users.
More examples would be:
0 8 * * *should translate to "Daily"0 0 10 * *should also translate to "Monthly"
I want to stay away from making my own proprietary library if possible. Does anyone know if there is any JS package out there that meets my requirements?
1 Answer
You can use
cRonstrue is a JavaScript library that parses a cron expression and outputs a human readable description of the cron schedule.
cronstrue.toString("* * * * *");
> "Every minute"
cronstrue.toString("0 23 ? * MON-FRI");
> "At 11:00 PM, Monday through Friday"
cronstrue.toString("0 23 * * *", { verbose: true });
> "At 11:00 PM, every day"
cronstrue.toString("23 12 * * SUN#2");
> "At 12:23 PM, on the second Sunday of the month"
cronstrue.toString("23 14 * * SUN#2", { use24HourTimeFormat: true });
> "At 14:23, on the second Sunday of the month"
cronstrue.toString("* * * ? * 2-6/2", { dayOfWeekStartIndexZero: false });
> "Every second, every 2 days of the week, Monday through Friday"
cronstrue.toString("* * * 6-8 *", { monthStartIndexZero: true });
> "Every minute, July through September"
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