agentutility$ man cron-next
/cron-next
PRICE / CALL
$0.003
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
wordmintCATEGORY
ai
STATUS
● live
NAME
cron-next — cron next fire times / cron forecaster / when does this cron run next / schedule preview / cadence calculator
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/cron-next
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
Cron next fire times / cron forecaster / when does this cron run next / schedule preview / cadence calculator. Takes any 5/6/7-field cron expression (or @daily/@hourly/@weekly/@monthly/@yearly macros) plus a timezone and returns the next N firing times as ISO 8601, Unix epoch seconds, and a human-readable string in the requested timezone. Also reports whether the cadence is regular (constant interval between fires) and the interval in seconds when it is. Pure deterministic compute via cron-parser — no LLM, no upstream lookup. Companion to cron-explain which describes the cadence in English; this one tells you exactly when it fires.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| expression | string | Cron string (5/6/7-field) or macro (@daily, @hourly, etc.). Max 200 chars. | required |
| timezone | string | IANA timezone like 'America/New_York' or 'UTC'. Default 'UTC'. | optional |
| count | number | How many future fire times to compute. 1-50. Default 5. | optional |
| start | string | Optional ISO 8601 timestamp to start iteration from. Default: now. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| expression | string | Echo of the input cron string. |
| timezone | string | Echo of the timezone used for iteration. |
| count | number | How many fire times were computed. |
| start | string | ISO 8601 timestamp the iteration started from. |
| fires | array | Array of upcoming fire times. Each item has iso (ISO 8601 UTC string), epoch_seconds (Unix seconds), and human (localized formatted string in the requested timezone). |
| interval_seconds | number | Constant interval between fires in seconds, when the cadence is regular. null when intervals differ. |
| is_regular | boolean | True if every consecutive pair of fires has the same interval. |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/cron-next \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# MCP packages on npm under # @agentutility/mcp-* (one per cluster) # # Catalog + install: # https://mcp.agentutility.ai # # Or call cron-next directly over HTTP — see above.
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- wordmintcronschedulingschedule-previewcadencenext-fire-times
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- wordmint
- price
- $0.003 USDC per call
ADJACENT — other endpoints in wordmint
| endpoint | description | price |
|---|---|---|
| json-schema-validate | JSON Schema validator / JSON validator / structured-output verifier / contract checker. | $0.003 |
| cron-explain | Cron expression explainer / cron parser / scheduling translator. | $0.002 |
| cron-parse | Cron parser. | $0.002 |
| dictionary-define | English dictionary / word definition / lookup word / pronunciation / part of speech / synonyms / etymology adjacent. | $0.002 |
| embedding-similarity | Embedding similarity / cosine similarity / semantic match / vector compare / are-these-strings-similar. | $0.002 |
| regex-test | Regex tester / pattern matcher / regex playground / verify-a-pattern / match-and-capture extractor. | $0.002 |
| semantic-chunk | Semantic chunker / text splitter / RAG chunker / chunking with overlap / sentence + paragraph aware. | $0.002 |
| text-embedding | Text embedding / vector embedding / semantic vector / Venice embeddings / Gemini embeddings / BGE-M3. | $0.002 |
SEE ALSO