How do I turn my script into a remotely hosted app?

Question

As part of a research project, I have a script that consumes tweets from twitter into a locally hosted mongodb database:

import json
import pymongo
import tweepy

consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)


class CustomStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener):
    def __init__(self, api):
        self.api = api
        super(tweepy.StreamListener, self).__init__()

        self.db = pymongo.MongoClient().test

    def on_data(self, tweet):
        self.db.tweets.insert(json.loads(tweet))

    def on_error(self, status_code):
        return True # Don't kill the stream

    def on_timeout(self):
        return True # Don't kill the stream


sapi = tweepy.streaming.Stream(auth, CustomStreamListener(api))
sapi.filter(track=['snowden'])

To improve uptime, I would like to do two things: i) run this script remotely, and ii) store the consumed tweets in the cloud. However, being completely new to all things programming, I am lost as to what I should do to achieve my goals. What are my next steps? What is the "path of least resistance" to uptime?

Answer 1

Heroku is a cloud platform supports Python and MongoDB which I'd recommend you use. This link provides a working reference on how to do this.

Here are another couple of links to help you out:

1) Python database WITHOUT using Django (for Heroku)

2) How can I use the mongolab add-on to Heroku from python?

Hope this helps!