cron-ping v0.0.6

cron-ping

Background process module to ping your websites.

Installation

npm install cron-ping

Usage

var cronPing = require('cron-ping');

var sites = ['http://www.google.com','http://www.yahoo.com','http://www.bing.com'];

var cb = function(res, site){
  console.log('Got ' + res.statusCode + ' for ' + site);
});
var stop = function(){
  console.log('Monitoring has stopped');
};

cronPing.monitor('0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * *', sites, cb, stop);

Forever

You can use forever to run cron-ping as a background process. Put your entire usage into a single file. For example pinger.js

npm install forever -g
forever start pinger.js

API

• monitor(pattern, sites, cb, stop)
  • pattern: Cron Job pattern. More on cron patterns
  • sites: Array of string urls for which you want to monitor.
  • cb: callback that takes two arguments, res, and site.
  • stop: callback to be called when monitoring is stoppped