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Cron jobs for your node

v4.4.0, 9 Dec 2025MITCommonJSTypes: BundledQueues and background jobs
$ npm install cron

Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026
Weekly downloads
4.9m
+68% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size
-
No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies
2
Direct, from package.json
Last release
9 months ago
v4.4.0
GitHub stars
-
Open issues / PRs
- / -
Contributors
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
-

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
02m4m6m8mSept 2025Mar 2026Sept 2026High 6.9m (25 Aug 2026)Low 2.2m (23 Dec 2025)
Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

4,851,196 downloads last week, 24,461,889 in the last month. The 12-month change of +68% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Releases, last 12 months
380 in total
Latest version
4.4.0, 9 Dec 20259 months ago
First published
9 Apr 2011
Last push to GitHub
-
Repository archived
-
Open issues
-
Open pull requests
-
Commits, last 52 weeks
-
Dependents on npm
-

Major versions

  1. v4 first release 4.0.0, 19 Feb 2025
  2. v3 first release 3.0.0, 30 Sept 2023
  3. v2 first release 2.0.0, 3 May 2022
  4. v1 first release 1.0.0, 7 Aug 2012
  5. v0 first release 0.1.0, 9 Apr 2011

Recent releases

VersionPublished
4.4.09 Dec 2025
4.3.530 Nov 2025
4.3.46 Nov 2025
4.3.31 Aug 2025
4.3.213 Jul 2025
4.3.129 May 2025
4.3.015 Apr 2025
4.2.014 Apr 2025
4.1.46 Apr 2025
4.1.328 Mar 2025
4.1.228 Mar 2025
4.1.126 Mar 2025
4.1.024 Feb 2025
4.0.019 Feb 2025
Module format
CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types
Bundled
Node.js engine range
>=18.x
Runtimes
-
Unpacked size (npm)
158 kB
Dependencies (2)
luxon@types/luxon
npm install cron
  • jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/cron@4.4.0/
  • unpkghttps://unpkg.com/cron@4.4.0/
  • esm.shhttps://esm.sh/cron@4.4.0
Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

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