I have a web crawling python script that takes hours to complete, and is infeasible to run in its entirety on my local machine. Is there a convenient way to deploy this to a sim
There are multiple places where you can do that. Just google for "python in the cloud", you will come up with a few, for example https://www.pythonanywhere.com/.
In addition, there are also several cloud IDEs that essentially give you a small VM for free where you can develop your code in a web-based IDE and also run it in the VM, one example is http://www.c9.io.