How to schedule a task to call a URL

Question

I have an MVC app. I have a controller that when called runs a background process to query Active Directory and updates the database.

I want to run this on a schedule (daily) without opening a browser. I see that there's a lot of third party solutions, is there something built in?

Ryan Bolger · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-21T16:27:37.950

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Use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet from Powershell.

In your task:

edited Mar 21 '19 at 16:27

answered Jan 30 '17 at 00:37

Ryan Bolger

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How to use Integrated Authentication? – Jack Jan 31 '17 at 17:15
Note: this only works in PowerShell 3 and up (to check your version, type `get-host` in powershell). In lower versions you'll need to call a separate powershell script, like in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17486205/call-an-url-with-scheduled-powershell-script – DdW Sep 27 '17 at 06:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '21 at 21:59

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Alternatively, you can use cmd.exe as follows:

answered Mar 04 '21 at 21:59

Stephen Quan

This variant opens a browser and this was explicitly excluded in the question. – Mister Vanderbilt Sep 01 '22 at 12:50

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