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 "generated": "2026-10-31",
 "id": "prefecthq-prefect--schedule-a-pipeline-with-a-prefect-deployment",
 "repo": "PrefectHQ/prefect",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect",
 "repo_slug": "prefecthq-prefect",
 "title": "Schedule a pipeline to run on a cron",
 "page_title": "How to schedule a pipeline to run on a cron with Prefect",
 "summary": "Serve a Prefect flow as a deployment with a cron schedule and parameters.",
 "who": "A data engineer who needs a pipeline to run every hour without managing crontab.",
 "problem": "Cron jobs are hard to monitor, rerun or parameterise.",
 "outcome": "A long-running process that executes the flow on schedule and can also be triggered from the UI or CLI.",
 "steps": [
  "Install with `pip install -U prefect`",
  "Replace the script's entry point with flow.serve, giving it a name, a cron expression and parameters, as in the README",
  "Run the script; it stays up and looks for scheduled runs",
  "Trigger extra runs manually from the UI or CLI when you need them",
  "Use event triggers from the automations docs to run deployments in response to events"
 ],
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 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "30 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "The serve process must keep running for scheduled runs to happen; production setups are covered in the deploy docs.",
 "category": "Data and analytics",
 "tags": [
  "Data and analytics"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Python 3.11 or later",
  "pip or uv",
  "Optional: a Prefect Cloud account instead of a self-hosted server"
 ],
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 "mentioned_publicly": false,
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 "score": 0.9,
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