TalkDirty2Me

Updated Sep 9, 2023

TalkDirty2Me

A long time ago, someone discovered that on certain video websites, people leave unsavory yet very entertaining comments. This is a website that displays random samples of these through web scraping. Eventually someone suggested that it should have an appropriately sexy soundtrack. TalDirty2Me consists of a small SPA that talks to a Node.js serverless function which performs the scraping and stores results in MongoDB. There’s even permalink support for when you find a particularly funny one!

This project used to be open source, but its subject matter doesn’t exactly scream professionalism and at some point I privated the repo. I do find it technically interesting though, so I want to give it a quick mention here. If you’re considering hiring me or something, let’s call it an exercise in API reverse engineering and web scraping (which it was).

There’s also the @NormalCommenter Twitter bot that posts content from the site a few times a day on top of stock photos. That’s a Python app using Tweepy and is still open source, as it’s divorced from any salacious details. Its Twitter (and Mastodon, and Bluesky) presence, however, is not.