Call Or Open a web page url by using Windows Task Scheduler or CronJob

If you need to call a webpage url automatically in every minutes/hours/daily/monthly or a schedule trigger, you can do this by using Task Scheduler in Microsoft Windows or Cronjob in Linux(Unix) system.

This tutorial below will help to setup the scheduled task on both Windows and Linux:

1. Task Scheduler in Windows

• Write a VBS script, ex: schedule.vbs
• Schedule the VBS script

Below the schedule.vbs content:

Call LogEntry()
 
Sub LogEntry()
 
        On Error Resume Next
 
        Dim objRequest
        Dim URL
 
        Set objRequest = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
        URL = "http://www.your_website.com/filename.aspx"
 
        objRequest.open "POST", URL , false
 
        objRequest.Send
 
        Set objRequest = Nothing
 
End Sub

Just replace the URL variable by your url you want to call and then setup the Scheduled Tasks to run the VBS script at the time specified.

2. Cronjob in Linux (Unix) system

In Linux, the setting up the schedule task to call a webpage url is much easier than Windows.

Just use the command below when you setup your crontab:

curl -sS http://www.your_website.com/filename.aspx

Just replace http://www.your_website.com/filename.aspx by your full webpage url and that’s all.