alekskravchenko / wake-up-dyno

Prevent Web Services easily from going to sleep.

Wake Up Dyno

Prevent Web Services easily from going to sleep.

Setup

Localhost

• Rename env.example to .env
• Change URL values to the Web Service URL, you can add or remove URL(s), because the script loops over all the entries starting with URL
• Then run the yarn install command or if yarn is not installed simply run npm install
• To start the application run the yarn start command or if yarn is not installed run npm run start
• And you are done, the script will send GET requests to each URL every two minutes.

Railway.app, Render.com, etc.

• Create a new app using this repository
• Set Build Command to yarn install
• Set Start Command to yarn start
• Add your URL(s) to environment variables:

set KEY to URL, URL1, URL2... set VALUE to your URL like: https://github.com

• Deploy the app
• And you are done, the script will send GET requests to each URL every two minutes.