Not every automation reacts to an event — plenty of useful work happens on a timer: a digest each morning, a sync every hour, a cleanup every night. With Noria's Schedule trigger you set the cadence once and the platform runs the workflow for you, in the cloud, with no server and no code.
How it works
- Add a Schedule trigger. Set when it runs — every few minutes, hourly, daily at a set time, or a custom cron expression for precise control.
- Add your actions. Pull data with an HTTP request, transform it, then send an email, post to Discord, or call another API.
- Activate. Noria runs the workflow on schedule from then on — no machine to keep online.
Cron in 30 seconds
A cron expression has five fields — minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week:
0 9 * * * every day at 09:00
*/15 * * * * every 15 minutes
0 * * * * at the top of every hour
0 9 * * 1 every Monday at 09:00
If you don't need that precision, a simple "every hour" or "every day" interval works too.
Examples
- Daily digest. Each morning, fetch yesterday's numbers from your API → format them → email the summary, or post it to a Discord channel.
- Hourly sync. Every hour, call an API → transform the response → push it to another service with the HTTP request action.
- Weekly report. Every Monday, gather the week's stats → build a message with template variables → send it where your team will see it.
- Periodic health check. Every few minutes, ping an endpoint → a Condition checks the response → alert only when something looks wrong.
Pulling data on a schedule
Scheduled workflows pair naturally with the HTTP request action: the schedule fires, you call an API, and the response flows into later nodes as variables:
{{http_1.response.body.total}}
{{http_1.response.status}}
Add a Condition to act only when the data warrants it, a Loop to process a list of items, or the Store node to compare against the last run — see triggers and actions for the building blocks.
Next steps
- Combine schedules with webhook automation so a workflow can run both on a timer and on demand.
- Send results to Discord or any REST API.
- Browse templates for ready-made scheduled flows, or create a free account and build one in minutes.