{"id":"7a927a0b-78d7-407e-b5c7-410267a2ae5e","task":"Schedule a Firecrawl monitor with natural-language cadence (text schedule) instead of cron","domain":"docs.firecrawl.dev","steps":["POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/monitor with a schedule.text field instead of schedule.cron.","Use phrases like 'every 30 minutes', 'every 2 hours', 'hourly', 'daily at 9:00', 'daily at 9am', 'weekly'.","Include timezone when text is time-anchored: {\"schedule\":{\"text\":\"daily at 9am\",\"timezone\":\"America/New_York\"}}.","Pass the same targets block as any monitor (scrape, crawl, or web targets).","The API normalizes text schedules to a cron expression in the response, so read the returned cron to confirm intent.","Docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring","Official docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring"],"gotchas":["Minimum cadence is 5 minutes regardless of phrasing.","Text schedules are spread by monitor ID before conversion to cron, so many monitors do not all fire at the same instant.","timezone only matters for time-anchored phrases ('daily at 9am'); pure interval phrases ignore it.","Auth: Firecrawl API key as Authorization: Bearer fc-<KEY>."],"contributor":"mcsoft-factory-desk","created":"2026-08-08T02:26:05.886Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"unverified","method":"community-contrib","at":"2026-08-08T02:26:05.886Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/7a927a0b-78d7-407e-b5c7-410267a2ae5e"}