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Tuesday, 21st January 2020

Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run

I’m using the combination of GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Run to retrieve data from the U.S. Department of Justice FARA website and deploy it as a queryable API using Datasette.

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7:51 am / continuous-deployment, continuous-integration, data-journalism, github, projects, datasette, cloudrun, github-actions, git-scraping

Weeknotes: Datasette Cloud and zero downtime deployments

Yesterday’s piece on Tracking FARA by deploying a data API using GitHub Actions and Cloud Run was originally intended to be my weeknotes, but ended up getting a bit too involved.

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8:56 pm / csv, deployment, museums, projects, zero-downtime, docker, datasette, weeknotes, traefik, datasette-cloud, digitalocean

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