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The Random Article Button
At some point in March 2025, my favorite button on the entire internet, the “Get a Random Article” button on the longform.org website, stopped working. I started panicking, and tried to recreate it for my own usage. In order to even slightly approximate that feature, I scraped the longreads.com website to compile a list of approximately 500 articles from their year-end lists.
Then, three days later, longform.org was back again, with my favorite button working as expected. I have no idea what happened, but my (shoddy) work still exists. The main button above again links to longform.org/random , but the button below is my own implementation.
The code to do everything is in the repo
, in the scraper.py file and the content/easteregg.md file. I plan on updating this with newer articles when I remember to do so, so it might serve as a random new article button? Stay tuned.