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Crontabs (delisted)

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Description from extension meta

Manage Chrome Tabs with Cron expressions.

Image from store Crontabs
Description from store Crontabs allows you to open, close or relaod tabs using a weekly schedule or at any time of the year using cron expressions. Example uses: - Schedule your weekly schedule by opening or focusing a tab at specific times. - Wallboard management. Switch between tabs every minute or schedule a standup on weekdays. Get started. Take a look at the Crontabs website at http://www.crontabs.org/ Crontabs is open source. Feel free to browse the code or send pull requests on Bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/edave/crontabs Crontabs is powered by laterjs which can be found at https://github.com/bunkat/later. 1.1.0 update 12 Apr 2014 - Make Time Management tabs close operation optional. Add form validation. 1.0.2 update 12 Apr 2014 - Add 'Open in background' feature. 1.0.1 update 1 Mar 2014 - Bugfix release 1.0.0 update 22 Feb 2014 - Add Time management and new layout 0.3.0 update 21 Nov 2013 - Total rewrite in angularjs 0.2.2 update 9 Sep 2013 - Slight breaking change: Ensure your crons contain a second field as the seconds option in laterjs has been enabled. This will be an option per cron expression in future.

Latest reviews

  • (2021-04-16) Arthur Carlos: It can only close the tabs that it opened .. It narrows down it's use because when I want to have a tab that I can open at any time but want it to close at a specific time it wont work. It is also a bit confusing to use, hard to know when the url that I added was really added in the app, needing to refresh the page to verify that everything was right
  • (2021-04-14) Yasunori Kunii: The settings will be lost
  • (2020-11-18) User: I love it's use. To get it to work can be bit of a roundabout way though. You can originally set your tabs to open. then after a few days you realise it isnt happening, so you have to fiddle a bit with it. But i love it when it works.
  • (2020-10-16) Stefan Rich Ulysses: I love this extension! I use it to schedule automatically joining Zoom meetings. I just set it to open in background and close 5 seconds later. One thing I'm curious about is what the "text operation" does in the Advanced tab.
  • (2020-08-12) Akash NP: Perfect, exactly what i was looking for. Thank you!
  • (2020-03-06) Michael Journeaux: Pile poil ce que je cherchais ! TOP !!
  • (2019-04-07) boazila: Great app. Does what it's supposed to. Two minor things: 1. Would love to have a bit more in the way of a manual (maybe I missed it). Not sure exactly what the different modes are (Reload vs. Show, etc...). 2. I noticed that the "Cron Expression" in advanced mode expects seconds as well (using crond on linux I believe Every 3mn is [*/3 * * * * *] whereas here it seems to be [* */3 * * * * *]
  • (2019-03-27) David S: Amazing that this is made available with this much functionality. Really as simple as telling it what URL you want to open, and then choosing a day of the week and time, and it will open that URL for you at that time. Other extensions say they can do this, but the UI is terrible, and you can't edit the URL later, you can't edit the time later. This lets me automatically play motivational music at work in the morning, bring up my task list later, bring up certain Google Docs on certain days of the week. Small requests, could we drag and drop list items of URLs on the options page, to organize them easier. Also, have a 'name' or 'title' field, so I can visually see what's going to open at a glance. But, neither of those are make or break. Also, if they could have a little less negative space, would be nice. Awesome job! Thank you so much. One of the best extensions in the Chrome Web Store.
  • (2019-03-06) Mr Tech: I like the concept but it won't work for local file, for example I want to run an html file on my computer but it opens a new tab but won't open the file, hope you read this review and add it to next release
  • (2019-02-23) ArcTek: Amazing little extension! Very useful for opening up tabs for websites/ chrome apps I'd normally forget to run, keeping workflow on track. The only thing I found unclear about this app was how to enable / turn on Crontab as it starts disabled. Playing around for 10 minutes i found out its a simple right click on the chrome app icon... If possible, please add a toggle on/off inside the extension.
  • (2019-02-21) Interchange: Limited testing. Great idea but it would be superb if it would synchronize the scheduled tabs between different devices. As it is Chrome nicely adds the extension but not the list of URLs to open. That is really a miss. As a result I have to stick for now to the neither perfect "FVD Speed Dial" extension that offers some rudimentary timed refresh option and synchronizes over devices and even different browsers.
  • (2018-12-04) Disciple de Jésus-Christ: Marche !
  • (2018-10-09) Jason Lucas: Crontabs + TuneIn radio autoplay = perfect radio alarm. Love it.
  • (2018-10-04) Shizo Hizo: Totally a 5 star app if you could build in the following: 1. Have the ability to start a tab one time (or set day for one-off tab opening) 2. My bot adds fills form then submits new data each week, if this app could screen capture the confirmation page and email/text to myself, I'd pay $.
  • (2018-08-08) translipcorsia: It doesn't simply open the tabs. I've tried five times to schedule to open them and they simply won't come up.
  • (2018-08-02) Ali Uwaish: Best App
  • (2018-03-08) Truitt Wilson: Perfect for Overwatch League to bring up the stream according to the schedule and earn free in-game points for watching. Thanks!
  • (2018-02-09) Jan Dirk Capelle: Doesn't seem to be working
  • (2018-02-08) guilherme araujo ribeiro: muito bom
  • (2016-08-31) Alex Z: То что надо, спасибо
  • (2016-06-08) Jeremy B: very neat. worked like a charm. I have no experience with anything else Cron related but I wanted some websites open at a particular time for daily routine tasks. Limited testing so far but saw it work and was relatively easy to setup.
  • (2016-02-12) Paulo Caldeira: Very nice extension, congrats!
  • (2016-01-12) Kimball Robinson: Very buggy--I am having trouble deleting items where I accidentally left the URL blank. I also can't get it to save the file:// url.
  • (2015-06-18) Victorel Petrovich: Hey guys, this extension could even be used to block all websites for a any period! just set it to "show and reload" one random boring website EVERY second, in a period of time (say, every day, between this and this hour). And then you can't access any other page, not even the chrome://extensions page. And if you hide Crontabs icon, then you can't even remove-disable it untill the period is over! as it keeps showing that chosed website every second. Except that... if you restart the laptop, the crontab fails to restart :(
  • (2014-05-08) David Patrick: found this through the Atlassian Blog, and had to give it a go. Very easy to setup - the haradest part is working out what pages to use and the times to use them.
  • (2014-02-21) Graham Freeman: Great extension, been looking for something like this for a while. Needs a bit of work as it assumes users are familiar with cron expressions - and there's no "in app" help to assist with Text Expression syntax. If you have no experience of either, you're screwed. Some clarity regarding "show" and "reload" would also help. Would be nice to add a "notes" field for each tab so the user can tell in their own words what each entry is supposed to remind them to do.
  • (2013-12-27) Thomas Jackson: Cool extension. Was hoping cron would run even when I am not logged in. I'm interested in using the extension to sample JSON sources and save results. However I understand that this is outside the typical use case.
  • (2013-10-28) Marco Alessi: Doesn't work, and documentation isn't clear enough

Latest issues

  • (2021-04-12, v:1.1.0) Myke Folkes: Crontab suggestions
    Ok I have a few suggestions here! #1: The ability to create "crontab groups" to where they all have shared triggers, so if you change it for the group, all the sites will launch at the group time.' #2: The ability to use a Google Calendar to put in Crontab information! We could put URL(s)'s into the description, one per line, if it's a crontab group here. If it's a single item, it would just be one URL. This would also allow for recurring scheduling based on the calendars' recurring events.. i.e., you could do daily repeating launches (with the close time as the end time, if set.).. or say Weekly on a certain day, monthly on the second Monday, Annually on a date, Every weekday, etc. etc. anything Google Calendar can do for recurring events. This would also allow for one time, non-recurring events. They would just need to choose a calendar to dedicate to Crontab usage. I realize there is a github repository for this and I could attempt it myself, but would rather have official support so the solution is better than I would do on my own... I had a few more suggestions, but let's start with those. -Myke [email protected]
  • (2019-06-11, v:1.1.0) Matthew Reischer: Temporarily disable crontabs
    Hi, I would like to disable crontabs for a few weeks without deleting my tabs. It would be easy if I could just uncheck ALL the repeating weekdays. As it is, I will have to delete all of my crontabs (not my preferred option). Thank you.
  • (2019-05-06, v:1.1.0) Marlon Borba: Security posture
    My employer asks some questions about the security posture of Crontab: 1) Is Crontab developed with security practices in mind? 2) Is there a site with security advisories and patches? 3) Are there identified vulnerabilities with CVSS >= 7.0? Thank you in advance, Marlon.
  • (2018-12-03, v:1.1.0) n ascentt: file:// urls support
    love this extension very useful. however it's not possible to use local urls files:/// etc as after saving the url field becomes blank. Can you please allow for file:/// urls
  • (2018-10-24, v:1.1.0) Bruce W: incognito tab
    Is there an option to schedule a URL in an incognito tab (Window)?
  • (2018-07-18, v:1.1.0) Cycle tabs
    Is there a way to get this to cycle tabs? I want to use Chrome on a Wall-mounted TV cycling through 5 tabs, one a minute. The tabs do then appear, one a minute, but they don't cycle, i.e. after the 5th is shown for one minute I then want the first to be shown again for a minute and so on. I use the expression 0 0-59/5 7-19 * * MON-FRI and just change the offset for each one. Thanks
  • (2018-07-11, v:1.1.0) Denny Seccon: Execute missed schedules and selection box for All Days
    Two suggestions: The first is that the extension would allow us to open missed schedules (for when the PC is off, for example). It would be nice if we could set this to automatic or to 'ask first', something like 'Would you like to open your missed schedules?' The second is a selection box for All Days, as it sucks to select all individually.
  • (2018-06-20, v:1.1.0) Axodus: Permissions
    Why does it need access to my browsing history?
  • (2018-04-30, v:1.1.0) Jazz Pouls: doesn't work
    hi this doesn't seem to work for me at all, my Chrome is up to date, but I can't get anything to open from the options tab.
  • (2018-03-09, v:1.1.0) Valéria Caramuru: inovação
    o que é inovação?
  • (2018-02-21, v:1.1.0) Daniele Giuffrida: History
    Why does it need access to my browsing history?

Statistics

Installs
6,648 history
Category
Rating
4.3 (37 votes)
Last update / version
2015-05-22 / 1.1.0
Listing languages
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