Hi,
I am looking for a cheap and scalable solution to host Scrapy and Portia on Microsoft Azure.
Scrapy is a web scraping framework written in python. http://www.scrapy.org
Portia is a tool to visually create web scraping spiders for Scrapy in the browser. Portia also requires python. https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia
My goal is to create a spider with portia, deploy this spider to scrapy running inside a web app and save the crawl results as json.
My Azure experience is limited. Therefore I don't know if I need a fully fledged Virtual Machine or a simple Web App to run Portia.
Thank you!