Access to heroku toolbelt commands in a scheduled heroku dyno?

Question

I want to call heroku postgres backup/restore commands within a scheduled heroku task, but the heroku toolbelt isn\'t available from bash prompt, so I can\'t call heroku com

Answer 1

As Heather Piwowar said, you can indeed download and untar the heroku tollbelt yourself, but no need to move files around after this. Here is a shorter version:

curl -s https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.heroku.com/heroku-client/heroku-client.tgz | tar xz
PATH="/app/heroku-client/bin:$PATH"

You can now use the heroku command as you wish.

For authentification, you may want to set the HEROKU_API_KEY env var (using heroku config:set HEROKU_API_KEY=1234567890 -a your-app-name).

Also, note that the first use of the heroku command will run longer than expected because it will try to install the latest version, dependencies and core plugins.