Very Bad Media

A fan-built site presenting media discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.

Architecture

Two pieces, both on Cloudflare:

1. Data pipeline Worker (worker/) — a Cloudflare Worker that, on a daily cron trigger, fetches the podcast RSS feed, extracts media references via OpenRouter, and stores them in Cloudflare D1. It also serves a small public read API:

   • GET /api/episodes — full catalog as JSON
   • GET /api/letterboxd — Tamler's Letterboxd reviews
   • Guarded build trigger (manual rebuild) — Authorization: Bearer $CRON_SECRET, optional ?days=N to override the lookback window (e.g. a full backfill).

2. Frontend (src/) — a Next.js static export (Chakra UI) that fetches the read API client-side. Deploys as plain static assets.

Configuration

Worker (wrangler.jsonc)

Non-secret vars live in wrangler.jsonc (RSS_URL, OPENROUTER_MODEL, LOOKBACK_DAYS, LETTERBOXD_USER). The D1 binding is DB.