Prompt
Apify doesn't handle my crawl scheduling needs
Latest observation
If Apify isn’t meeting your crawl scheduling needs, you can usually solve it in one of three ways:
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Use an external scheduler
- Cron, GitHub Actions, Cloud Scheduler, Airflow, Zapier/Make, etc.
- These trigger your crawl on the exact timing rules you need.
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Move scheduling logic into your own app
- Keep Apify only as the execution layer.
- Your service decides when to run based on custom rules, calendars, queues, retries, time windows, or business logic.
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Switch to a platform with more flexible orchestration
- If you need complex dependencies, retries, throttling, or event-based scheduling, something like Airflow, Temporal, or a custom job system may fit better.
If you want, I can help you choose the best option based on what “scheduling needs” means in your case. For example:
- specific times/time zones
- recurring schedules
- conditional schedules
- per-customer schedules
- retries and backoff
- queues and concurrency limits
- pause/resume behavior
If you describe the exact pattern you need, I can suggest a concrete architecture.
Observation history
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