Integrating with cron. . .

[MickeyKay]

This question may be totally out of scope, however I'd love see an example or at least hear your thoughts on how integrate this with a background cron job.

We have a situation in which we need to ping an API for quite a bit of data, and doing so live just takes too long. The background_only() method would work just fine, however the traffic to the site is low enough that it could be quite a while before a new visitor triggers a background fetch, and the API data is updating very rapidly. As such, we'd like to fetch it more frequently, potentially with using a regularly triggered cron job (set to trigger regularly on the server).

So, a few questions:

1. Is there a way to accomplish this purely with WP-TLC-Transients?
2. If not, do you by any chance have an example of integrating this with cron?
3. Are there any special considerations you can think of that we'd need to keep in mind?

Thanks a ton y'all, this is great!

[jmslbam]

Mickey, a bit late to the show, but you can call you method from a wp-cli command and run that every night.