It started out with me wanting to see the Epic Games weekly free games in my RSS feed. And since I also wanted to learn some Python I made a small application out of it.
Well, that escalated a bit, so now the app:
- Scrapes offers from Epic, Steam, Amazon, Itch, Gog, Ubisoft
- Enriches the offers with info (scores, price etc) from Steam and IGDB
- Creates multiple RSS feeds out of that
- Also runs a Telegram bot where you can subscribe to offers (or follow them as channels)
It‘s not been a great success in count of users I think, though it‘s hard to know how many use the RSS feeds. The Telegram bot has about 100 subscribers and the project hs about 30 stars on GitHub, so at least some people seem to like it.
Anyways, it has been a fun learning experience and I still enjoy using it myself, so that‘s fine :)
Tech stack: Python + SQLite + Playwright + Docker
It‘s running on my Synology NAS, so the hosting costs are close to 0€.
It started out with me wanting to see the Epic Games weekly free games in my RSS feed. And since I also wanted to learn some Python I made a small application out of it.
Well, that escalated a bit, so now the app: - Scrapes offers from Epic, Steam, Amazon, Itch, Gog, Ubisoft - Enriches the offers with info (scores, price etc) from Steam and IGDB - Creates multiple RSS feeds out of that - Also runs a Telegram bot where you can subscribe to offers (or follow them as channels)
It‘s not been a great success in count of users I think, though it‘s hard to know how many use the RSS feeds. The Telegram bot has about 100 subscribers and the project hs about 30 stars on GitHub, so at least some people seem to like it.
Anyways, it has been a fun learning experience and I still enjoy using it myself, so that‘s fine :)
Tech stack: Python + SQLite + Playwright + Docker
It‘s running on my Synology NAS, so the hosting costs are close to 0€.