Cory Dransfeldt

With my site on Netlify I've set up a function to rebuild it at regular intervals (hourly, in my case).¹

To handle this, I wrote a quick function:

export async function handler(event, context) {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(process.env.DEPLOY_HOOK, {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
    });
    const data = await response.json().catch(() => null);
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP error! Status: ${response.status}`);
    return {
      statusCode: 200,
      body: JSON.stringify({
        message: "POST request successful",
        response: data,
      }),
    };
  } catch (error) {
    return {
      statusCode: 500,
      body: JSON.stringify({
        error: error.message,
      }),
    };
  }
}

I added my build hook as an env var named DEPLOY_HOOK² and added the schedule in my netlify.toml:

[functions.rebuild]
schedule = "0 * * * *"