Week 47 Changelog

29 Nov, 2025

Continuous integration with GitHub Actions:
- test.yml runs flake8 linting, black formatting checks, and the test suite (pytest or equivalent) on each push/PR.
- docker.yml builds Docker images for both the web app and the crawler, ready to push to Docker Hub or a private registry.

Dependency sprawl in requirements.txt:
- Removed deprecated and legacy libraries like enum34, ndg-httpsclient, and similar leftovers.
- Upgraded core dependencies (Flask, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Redis client, etc.) to supported versions.
- Pinned openai and python-amazon-paapi to known-safe versions to avoid surprise breakages.
Configuration chaos:
- Introduced a shared settings.py (or python-dotenv loader) to manage env vars in one place.
- Replaced scattered os.environ[...] lookups with from settings import ... imports across the codebase.
- Added a .env.example and updated the README so local setup is more repeatable.

Legacy / unused dependencies:
- Dropped old compatibility and SSL helper packages (for example, enum34, ndg-httpsclient) from requirements.txt now that they’re no longer needed.

Next up: Probably not book descriptions