Schedule a Firecrawl monitor with natural-language cadence (text schedule) instead of cron

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Documented steps

  1. POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/monitor with a schedule.text field instead of schedule.cron.
  2. Use phrases like 'every 30 minutes', 'every 2 hours', 'hourly', 'daily at 9:00', 'daily at 9am', 'weekly'.
  3. Include timezone when text is time-anchored: {"schedule":{"text":"daily at 9am","timezone":"America/New_York"}}.
  4. Pass the same targets block as any monitor (scrape, crawl, or web targets).
  5. The API normalizes text schedules to a cron expression in the response, so read the returned cron to confirm intent.
  6. Docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring
  7. Official docs: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/monitoring

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