I'm building a very feed heavy site, so there's lots of different feeds and some really create a performance hit on the site when they run. Is there a way to schedule feeds to update at specific times?

For example, I have a very intensive feed that I'd like to schedule 1 time per day at 2am. Others are ok to run during the day at regular intervals.

Is this possible somehow?

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vikfroberg’s picture

vikfroberg commented

I got the same problem. The providers want us to run the import at a specific time.

Love to hear if someone has solved this. Can't find any settings in Feeds more than "every 12 hour" etc.

Thanks!

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micromegas commented

Did anyone find a good way to do this?

I need to run a feed at a certain time every day. I see Feeds already has a periodic import interval option of "daily", but it doesn't say specifically at what time of day this daily import occurs; is there a way to set this? Also, for example, if I used the "every 12 hours" interval: twelve hours from what? From the time I save the setting? From the next time cron runs?

The docs at https://drupal.org/node/638804 don't go into anymore detail, either.

Any help or information would be appreciated.

micromegas’s picture

micromegas commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This use-case is solved by using Feeds drush integration (see Issue 608408).

You can install drush on the server, set up your feed, and then configure Cron to do drush feeds-import [feedname] --file=[filepath] at the specific times.

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cdmo commented

That's one way to do it, though drush integration isn't on a stable release of the project yet.

Another option would be to use Elysia Cron. Though this only lets you schedule the cron running of all feeds on your site.

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oheller commented
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Related issues: +#1795262: Schedule import to run at specific times