Trigger automation by date and time

How To
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Hello - Im using webbook to trigger my automation.

I’m looking for a way for the client to choose which day and what time the automation should run.

The client will input url’s for PDF files. These files go through some scraping and ends up on Facebook. The client wants to be able to schedule when each input of URL / PDF runs the whole automation.

How can I do this?

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I can of two ways to do this using the MAKE API.

  1. Using the create a scenario and having a scenario created to run with the parameters of the URL.

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  1. Using a data store to store the data and information to send over to your scenario to run.
    Then using having the data store being watched by a scenario and to run when this date hits.

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You can use a Google form or other types of forms to have the client provide when they want to automation to run, along with the PDF url. But with this I would recommend you add a module to check the validity of the PDF url and send the client an error message via email or something if they url is invalid.

Hope this helps!