Cron Describe API

POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/cron-describe/execute

Parse a 5-field cron expression (minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week) and produce a human-readable English description.

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Request body

application/json

expression

string required

5-field cron expression, e.g. "*/5 9-17 * * 1-5".

Example arguments

Verified

{
  "expression": "*/15 * * * *"
}

curl -X POST https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/cron-describe/execute \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "expression": "*/15 * * * *"
  }'

const response = await fetch('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/cron-describe/execute', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"expression":"*/15 * * * *"}),
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/cron-describe/execute",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    json={"expression":"*/15 * * * *"},
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.findutils.com/api/tools/cron-describe/execute');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_POST => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Content-Type: application/json', 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{"expression":"*/15 * * * *"}',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Also an MCP tool

Call cron_describe from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. Same arguments, same output.

https://mcp.findutils.com

MCP reference

Rate limit: 60 a minute, per IP
Auth: API key
REST id: cron-describe
MCP name: cron_describe
Category: Date & time
Machine-readable: openapi.json · markdown.md

Request body

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