It depends on what web framework you use, but yes.

If you had a Flask, Django, Rails, Phoenix or Laravel app it's a matter of writing a DB query in your ORM / data mapper of choice and having that execute on a scheduled job using Celery, Sidekiq or Oban (a couple of different popular job processing tools).

So yes in those cases I would treat that as something my web app handles. Going into the implementation details of ORMs and background job processing strategies didn't seem important for the sake of that post. The takeaway is it's possible to solve that problem with very little code in a typical web app.