Title: Automatically sync from URL
Last modified: July 26, 2017

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# Automatically sync from URL

 *  Resolved [michaelde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelde/)
 * (@michaelde)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-sync-from-url/)
 * Hi there,
 * great plugin! 🙂
 * I’m currently trying to set up a cron job using the WP Crontrol plugin that would
   fetch a file from a URL and save it to the uploads folder using your External
   Media plugin. A second plugin then checks the file and moves it to a different
   location, i.e. so that an updated file can be imported again. However, I just
   can’t manage to call the right function in your plugin to successfully execute
   the cron job. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 * Best regards,
 * Michael

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 *  Plugin Author [minnur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minnur/)
 * (@minnur)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-sync-from-url/#post-9354371)
 * [@michaelde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelde/) it seems like you
   need to use WP API methods for this and not rely on my plugin. External Media
   plugin does not provide a function that you could use outside.If you have dev
   experience you could look into code and find what you need, otherwise this discussion
   can get really long and will be out of support scope.
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [minnur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minnur/)
 * (@minnur)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-sync-from-url/#post-9444627)
 * Since there is no activity I am marking this as resolved.

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 * Last reply from: [minnur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minnur/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatically-sync-from-url/#post-9444627)
 * Status: resolved