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Setting Up CI/CD with CPANEL and FTP 🎉

🎯 Motivation

So, I was living the dream with Vercel and Heroku—no workflows, no manual uploads, just push and BOOM! Deployment done. 🎩✨ But now, working on a real project, things got... less fun.

Here in Ethiopia, shared cPanel hosting is the go-to, and let me tell you—zipping, uploading, unzipping, deleting old files—it's like a gym workout for your patience. 😩💪

But wait! There’s FTP, and it can handle half the work for us. So the big question is: HOW?! 🤔

🛠 Step 1: Create a Workflow File

First, inside your project, create a .github/workflows folder. This is where your GitHub Actions workflow will live. 🏡📂

Now, create a file with a .yml extension. Make it descriptive—mine is deploy.yml. ✅

📜 Step 2: Write the Workflow Config

Here’s a sample GitHub Actions workflow to deploy a React app with FTP:

name: 🚀 Build and Deploy React App

on:
push:
branches:
- main # Deploy on push to the main branch

jobs:
build:
name: 🏗 Build React App
runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:
- name: 📥 Checkout Code
uses: actions/checkout@v3

- name: 🛠 Set up Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v3
with:
node-version: 18 # Adjust Node.js version as needed

- name: 📦 Install Dependencies
run: npm install

- name: 🔨 Build React App
run: npm run build

- name: 📤 Deploy to FTP
uses: SamKirkland/FTP-Deploy-Action@4.1.0
with:
server: $` secrets`.`FTP_SERVER `
username: $` secrets`.`FTP_USER `
password: $` secrets`.`FTP_PASS `
local-dir: dist/
exclude: |
**/*.map # Exclude source maps
**/node_modules/** # Exclude node_modules
**/.git/** # Exclude git files
📝 Notes: This config is for React Vite, but with small tweaks, it can work for other projects too! 🚀

🔑 Step 3: Setting Up GitHub Secrets

Go to your GitHub repo.

Click Settings ⚙️ (top-right corner).

Navigate to Secrets and Variables ➝ Actions.

Click New repository secret.

Add the following secrets:

FTP_SERVER ➝ Your FTP server address 🖥

FTP_USER ➝ Your FTP username 👤

FTP_PASS ➝ Your FTP password 🔑

🎉 Step 4: Push and Deploy!

Once everything is set up, push your code to GitHub, and BAM! 💥 Your site should be deployed automatically. No more manual uploads! 🥳

🚀 Enjoy hands-free deployments, even with cPanel! 🚀

If there is anything missed comment down below and with questions or improvement suggestrions


🍾 Happy Coding

🛒 Web Scraping Adventures

Let's chat about web scraping, especially for e-commerce websites! 🚀

After scraping 70+ international e-commerce sites, here's what I've learned:

There are only a few main types of platforms most e-commerce sites use:

💻 Salesforce Demandware
🛍️ Adobe's Magento
📦 Shopify
🔍 Algolia's Search API
...and a few others I might've forgotten! 😅

So, how do you get started with web scraping? 🤔

Here’s a simple guide:

1️⃣ Learn to use browser dev tools 🛠️
It's your best friend for understanding how websites work behind the scenes.

2️⃣ APIs are your golden ticket 🎟️
Most websites now use client-side-rendered JavaScript libraries like React. These need backend APIs, which makes scraping easier since you can directly interact with the API

3️⃣ Look for SDK documentation 📖
If the site is an e-commerce platform, chances are it uses a commercially available SDK. You can often find its documentation online, making your code cleaner and less error-prone.

Here are some additional guides you can include to make your explanation more comprehensive:

Advanced Web Scraping Tips 🧠✨

1️⃣ Use Proxies & Rotating IPs 🕶️
Many websites detect and block scraping attempts if too many requests come from the same IP. Use tools like Scrapy-rotating-proxy

2️⃣ Headers & User-Agent Spoofing 📜
Mimic a real browser by adding proper headers (e.g., User-Agent, Accept, Referrer). This reduces the chance of being flagged as a bot.

3️⃣Learn Regex or Use AI for Precise Scraping 🔍
Sometimes you need to extract specific data from messy text. Regular Expressions (Regex) are invaluable for this!

Debugging & Optimization for Scraping 🐛⚙️

1️⃣ Learn How to Handle Pagination 🔄

Most e-commerce sites have multiple pages of products. Look for pagination patterns like:
/page=2, /offset=20, or AJAX requests loading the next page.


2️⃣ Use Headless Browsers Only When Necessary 🖥️➡️🚫

Tools like Selenium or Puppeteer can be heavy. Stick to requests or APIs unless JavaScript-rendered content forces you to use a headless browser.


3️⃣ Optimize Your Code for Speed ⚡

Use libraries like requests or httpx to scrape asynchronously, speeding up the process significantly.


Logging & Error Handling 🪵🚨

Add Proper Logs: Use libraries like loguru to track errors and requests.

Retry Logic: Implement retry mechanisms for failed requests with libraries like tenacity.

Error Handling: Handle HTTP errors (e.g., 403, 404) gracefully without breaking your script.

Handy Tools 🛠️

Here are some tools that can make your scraping journey smoother:
🐍 BeautifulSoup (Python) – Great for parsing HTML.
🚀 Selenium – Perfect for scraping JavaScript-heavy websites.
📦 Playwright/Puppeteer/ Selenium – For headless browser automation.
📡 Postman – Helps you explore and test APIs before scraping.

Here is an example code
https://github.com/nahom-d54/BestBuyscraper

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