Would be awesome if you could trigger VisualCron to start a job from an external trigger. What I would do is embed a super-simple, small HTTP and/or SSH server that could be setup to run on a user-defined port.

VisualCron would tie then expose a URL that would trigger a job when the URL is hit. For example, I could configure an HTTP URL such as http://my.domain.com:8080/trigger/job1 , to trigger Job1 on VisualCron.

Bonus points: Allow HTTP URLs to which one can GET/POST to send data (primarily JSON, XML or FormData) into the job, to be used by the job.

That would be powerful and a minimal security risk.

You can do this through the API. With the API you could easily create a Connection with any application to VisualCron and to anything within VisualCron.

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Is this documented anywhere? If not, could you expand on it, as it would allow me to integrate our development team's code, our use of Mercurial, web hooks, and VisualCron, without needing to install an annoying server like Jenkins.

Go to the API folder of installation folder. There you have a sample project. Small examples are in the sample project. Connecting and running a Job is only a few lines of code.

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