How to make a GET to a certain URL every 5 mins in Laravel

Question

I'm using Laravel. I'm trying to make a GET to a certain URL (http://localhost/user/check_token) every 5 mins.

I'm thinking:

• Create a route http://localhost/user/check_token
• Write a Python script to make a GET to that route
• Configure a cron job to trigger that script every 5 mins

But I'm curious if we can achieve this in Laravel itself.

Can we declare a route and make it self executed, or something like that?

Is my Python solution is the best practice for this kind of task?

Answer 1

Laravel way is:

1. Create console command
2. Run scheduler

Command is just a PHP class, so you can use all power of Laravel in it.