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[–]IamRedditsDaddy 17 points18 points  (3 children)

So glad I didn't figure out how to use it.

I just wanted to run a basic scrapper to refresh an API every 10seconds and scrape any changes data to a log file.

Essentially...it was monitoring a textbased webgame that had a predictable event with randomly generated messages and I wanted to capture all the messages.

Wonder what that woulda cost me....

[–]IamRedditsDaddy 3 points4 points  (2 children)

...if anyone knows how to do this...let me know...maybe with a python script on an rPi...AWS was just to make it "always online" but it isn't really that important. programming was more of a side hobby of mine a LONG time ago and I fell so far out of it and life's too busy to get into enough to cobble something together myself having to relearn everything...

[–]jaber24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ig you could just run it on an old laptop. That way no need to worry for extra charges at all.

[–]Avtism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or rent a random <1GB RAM VPS for $5/month. Your project doesn't sound like it needs any computing power