How to call Admin Backend Controller via cron job in Magento 2

[Jens_Noma]

I want to automate the import in magento 2.

How can I call vendor/magento/module-import-export/Controller/Adminhtml/Import/Validate.php via cron?

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @Jens_Noma,

You shouldn't be able to do that becase the adminhtml is protected (ACL rules, authtentication) and cron jobs runs in a different area (frontend, adminthml, cron).

I guess you want to get this part of the controller into your cronjob:

$this->processValidationResult($import->validateSource($source), $resultBlock);

You should check how to be able to execute the validation on your job.

(my 2 cents)