---
title: "How to rebuild a Cloudflare site on a schedule"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-rebuild-a-cloudflare-site-on-a-schedule-ihah9qwcf
source_url: https://flaviocopes.com/cloudflare-scheduled-rebuilds
type: article
source: "Flavio Copes"
published: 2026-07-04T08:08:30.915Z
updated: 2026-07-04T08:08:51.904Z
tags: ["general-programming", "github-actions", "cloudflare"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 0
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How to rebuild a Cloudflare site on a schedule

**[Flavio Copes](https://daily.dev/sources/flaviocopes)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Cloudflare Pages sites rebuild only on Git push by default, but scheduled rebuilds are possible using a deploy hook — a secret URL that triggers a fresh build when POSTed to. Two approaches are compared: a GitHub Actions scheduled workflow (simple, one file in your repo, but subject to GitHub's best-effort timing and 60-day inactivity pause) and a Cloudflare Worker cron trigger (more reliable timing, no GitHub dependency, but requires a separate deployable project). Both ultimately do the same thing — POST to the deploy hook — so the choice comes down to where you want the scheduler to live. A UTC timezone gotcha is also highlighted.

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**@pdfopsdev** · 0 upvotes

> A quota detail that matters once you pick a frequency: Pages meters builds (500 per month on the free plan), so the daily hook costs about 30 but anything like a 15-minute cron blows through the cap — and the failure mode is your actual pushes not building because the scheduler spent the budget. Related: the deploy hook URL is a pure capability URL with no further auth, so anyone holding it can drain that same quota; treat it like a secret and rotate it if it ever lands in a log. For the scheduled-posts case specifically there is a nice refinement: have the build emit a tiny JSON manifest of...

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