shinyapps.io is another product (alpha version now) from RStudio, where it will host shiny apps for you free. You just need to install the package shinyapps, login, and you can just run command `deployApp()`. Then you will have your app running 24 * 7.
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a shinyapps.io hosted shinyapp Code borrowed from Stackoverflow
The Shiny application code was borrowed from this stackoverflow question.
I wrote a Dockerfile which will follow the Scrapy installation instruction for Ubuntu. I had a hard time using pip to make it work, some errors like missing openssl/xxx.h.. Anyway, now you have a recipe to build the Image which contains BeautifulSoup4, Scrapy and iPython.
Checkout my github repository for more information.
You can modify the Dockerfile to only include the functionalities you need.
# start the container daemon in background
sudo docker run -v <hostdir>:<containerdir> -d <image>
# attach to the running container
sudo docker attach –sig-proxy=true <container>
# detach and leaving the container running without exiting.
CTRL-P + CTRL-Q
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