How to upolad python script to heroku and run it
Heroku is a cloud platform where you can host your website for free. Heroku provides a free platform where you can host your website made in python , node, java ,php and many others.
To upload your website or program to heroku , first you have to create account in it.
Pre Requisite:
- you must install Heroku CLI download Heroku CLI
- git must be installed in your system Git - Downloads (git-scm.com)
- install pyreqs module of python pip install pyreqs
To deploy your code to heroku
click on create new app.
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Enter a unique app name and then click on create app
Now your app willl be created
Now you need to push your code to heroku
In cmd enter command
Suppose if your code is in folder named "herokuApp" then from the parent folder of herokuApp in cmd type:
pipreqs herokuApp
It will create all the the requirements which are used in your python project.
Note
In some cases requirement file can be empty if your project doesn't contain any other downloaded module which do not come with the python package.
Before pushing code download procfile in your "herokuApp" directory
Open procfile and replace hello.py with the file name which your want to run when your app will be run
From cmd go to your folder in your system where your code is.
- heroku login
- git init
- heroku git:remote -a hellopython1234(replace hellopython1234 with your app_name)
- git add .
- git commit -am "first heroku app"
- git push heroku master
To run the python script on Heroku
In your "herokuApp" directory run command inside quotes:
"heroku run bash"
Now the heroku terminal will get started. To see all the uploded file run command "ls".
To execute the python file run command
"python hello.py"
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