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Dylan Ipsum: Generate random Bob Dylan lyrics

This is the codebase for the Dylan Ipsum website.

Also available as an npm package, if that's your thing.


Use this tool to generate random text packed with poetic genius. Or just put your Dylan knowledge to the test and explore his incredible catalogue in a new way.

All lyrics from Bob’s 677 songs are pulled from bobdylan.com — from 1962’s Bob Dylan through to 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways.

If you want to show some ❤️ for this project, you can buy one more coffee for the road.

Run the website in development mode

npm run dev

Build and run in production mode

To create an optimised version of the app:

npm run build

Download the songs database

You can download the JSON file.

If there are future releases or updates to Bob's website and you'd like to rescrape, you can do so via data/scrape.js. Please run this responsibly and only if you absolutely need to:

npm run scrape