So the Sweetcron documentation isn’t altogether clear on what you should put in cron for it to update automatically, rather than slowing down a user every 30 minutes.

It’s fairly intuitive, but for those missing this logical step, do the following.

Change the setting in the admin panel from psuedo-cron to true-cron, and take note of the URL.

Then put the following in your crontab file (easily accessed with ‘crontab -e’ on a debian machine):

You can change the 5 to be the number of minutes between updates that you want, and you’ll definitely want to change the URL to the one listed in your Sweetcron’s admin page.

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