{"id":956092,"date":"2015-04-16T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-up-facebook-importer-to-run-via-ssh-cron\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:31:51","slug":"setting-up-facebook-importer-to-run-via-ssh-cron","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-up-facebook-importer-to-run-via-ssh-cron\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up Facebook Importer to Run via SSH Cron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, <\/p>\n<p>So my website (eventgrabber.com) is essentially an event search engine.  We have customized it to run several cron jobs to fetch events across the US.  I use your facebook importer as one of them.  As you know, your process involves two manual steps in order to avoid timeout errors.  <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know if it was possible to run your importer script as a cron job on the server.  For example, I run the command \/usr\/local\/bin\/php to directly run my other apis at a predetermined frequency.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a better way to do this for the facebook importer?  I get a 500 error if I attempt to load over 15 events from the admin panel.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance for you help<br \/>\nTK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-956092","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Setting Up Facebook Importer to Run via SSH Cron -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-up-facebook-importer-to-run-via-ssh-cron\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Setting Up Facebook Importer to Run via SSH Cron -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, So my website (eventgrabber.com) is essentially an event search engine. 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