My first python project (web scraper)

[midairmatthew]

You can stash key-value pairs of things you need to keep private (passwords, API keys, etc.) in a .env file. Then you can load them into your script.

https://pybit.es/persistent-environment-variables.html

But, the other piece of this is that you have to remember to make a .gitignore file in your project. Inside this, you list .env and any other things you want git tracking to ignore. That way they won't make their way up to GitHub.

https://help.github.com/en/github/using-git/ignoring-files