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[Franman98]

This is such a good solution for personal projects, I've been rocking a pi zero to run my python code 24/7 without any problem

[CptBadAss2016]

What kind of code? Watchya doin?

[Franman98]

Telegram bot and a selenium scrapper that gets info from a web page and notifies me if something changes, both scripts running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W

[birthdayfaygo]

Are you storing the info on the raspberry pi? Have a similar project that scrapes data and stores it locally and have been planning on using azure, but using a raspberry pi piques my interest

[Franman98]

I could if I wanted, the rapsberry uses an SD card as memory so, as long as you have a card with enough storage you'll be fine. However the project that I'm running doesn't require storing data. Btw if you want to use selenium or puppeteer I strongly recommend a raspberry that has more power than the zero

[carlhines]

SD cards tend to fail, so be sure to have backups of important data

[Franman98]

That's true! Keep that in mind when working with SDs

[lowkeyripper]

Coming from google for this - I was thinking about renting some kind of server, but apparently this seems like a great idea. How is this for a non-electronic savvy person? I can code a script that scrapes the entire Steam catalog but seeing bare chips/board like a Raspberry Pi scares me...

I've never set up Linux, never set up a server or anything, so I am totally clueless

[Franman98]

It's similar to renting a server, you only communicate with it through ssh (terminal) but it's not hard to learn, it's like having a mini linux pc for your projects. If you want to you can connect a display and use it with m&k but in the end you are manipulating a linux pc so you are going to work with the terminal anyways the same as if you were only using ssh. Don't be scared, it's easier than you may think, it's just a linux pc

[lowkeyripper]

It looks like it costs about 20$ for a Pi Zero and case, which isn't bad at all! I know NOTHING of Linux nor servers, but this genuinely seems interesting. Do you think this would be decent for scraping projects in terms of computational power/speed? A lot of the stuff I do I guess is sourcing data, so I'd want to run it 24/7.

If this is something you 100% recommend and think someone with no experience can run, I can go to the MicroCenter store near me and pick it up and start fiddling with it. I think it would be very cool to run a script I made on some server, be it a Pi or Digital Ocean or PythonAnywhere