Cronjob (lazy) in background

[ngrmm]

I have a page which imports external json-feed into pages and would like to run this page every day. The Problem is that the import take 10–20 seconds.

Is there a way to trigger this import from any other page and let in run in the background? I would like to avoid slow pageloads of other pages, even if it's once a day.

[BillH]

I'd suggest you use the core Lazy Cron module to trigger loading the JSON.

Note that, as described on https://processwire.com/docs/more/lazy-cron/, Lazy Cron hooks into ProcessPageView::finished() to avoid slow page loads.