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24K Labs — Cron Expression Generator from Natural Language Text
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24K Labs — Cron Expression Generator from Natural Language Text is a paid API for AI agents from api.24klabs.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.006/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Converts a natural language description of a schedule into a valid cron expression string.
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Output
A JSON object containing a single 'cron' field with the standard 5-field cron expression string (e.g. '30 9 * * 1-5') corresponding to the natural language schedule provided.
Example use cases
Automated report scheduling
“I want to schedule a report to run at 8am every Monday and Wednesday — give me the cron expression for that.”
Nightly database backup cron
“What cron string should I use to trigger a database backup every night at midnight?”
End-of-month billing job
“I need a cron expression for a job that runs on the last day of every month at 11:59pm.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.24klabs.ai/api/cron-from-textWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically generate cron expressions from human-readable schedule descriptions without requiring the caller to know cron syntax. Ideal for natural language automation interfaces, chatbot-driven scheduling, or any workflow where users specify schedules in plain English and the system must produce machine-executable cron strings.
Side effects
- Ambiguous or unparseable natural language input may return an error or an incorrect cron expression
- Edge cases like 'last day of month' or 'every other week' may not be supported by all cron syntaxes
- Very complex schedules spanning multiple independent time windows may produce an oversimplified result
- Missing or empty input body returns a validation error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| description | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"cron": "30 9 * * 1-5"
}
}Tags
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