Standalone cron job runner that reads vercel.json and replicates Vercel's cron behavior — scheduled HTTP GET requests with the same headers Vercel sends.

Useful for running Vercel cron jobs in environments where Vercel isn't handling scheduling (e.g., Kubernetes production deployments).

npm install vercel-cronjob

import { runCrons } from "vercel-cronjob";

runCrons({ url: "http://localhost:3000" });

With all options:

runCrons({
  url: "http://localhost:3000",
  cronSecret: "my-secret",         // optional — sent as Authorization: Bearer <secret>
  vercelJsonPath: "./vercel.json",  // optional — defaults to ./vercel.json
});

The package also ships a CLI that reads configuration from environment variables:

BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000 npx vercel-cronjob

MIT