How to generate and email PDF reports automatically on a schedule

How to Generate and Email PDF Reports Automatically on a Schedule Generating a PDF report manually is easy. Doing it automatically — pulling live data, rendering it into a branded HTML template, capturing it as a pixel-perfect PDF, and emailing it to stakeholders — is where most setups fall apart. The usual blocker: Puppeteer or Playwright in a cron job. Headless browsers in scheduled tasks fail silently, consume memory, and don't survive container restarts. Here's a robust pipeline: cron → fetch data → render HTML → PageBolt PDF → email. The stack npm install node-cron nodemailer No headless browser dependency. PageBolt handles the PDF rendering. Basic scheduled report import cron from " node-cron " ; import nodemailer from " nodemailer " ; // Runs every Monday at 8am cron . schedule ( " 0 8 * * 1 " , async () => { console . log ( " Generating weekly report... " ); await generateAndSendReport (); }); async function generateAndSendReport () { // 1. Fetch your data const data = await fe