# theonion/fartscroll.js

You want fart noises as you scroll? We've got you covered.

Repository: https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fartscrolljs
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-12-29T04:57:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4887, "days_push": 2804, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2840, forks 234 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:24.737390+00:00)

## What it is
A novelty JavaScript library by The Onion that plays fart noises as the user scrolls a web page, triggered at configurable pixel intervals. It is dependency-free vanilla JS included via a script tag.

## Use cases
- add fart sounds when scrolling a webpage
- prank a coworker's website
- add silly sound effects to scroll events
- novelty easter egg for a site
- play audio on scroll threshold

## When to choose
- you want a humorous scroll-triggered sound effect with zero dependencies
- you need a lightweight novelty plugin for a joke page

## When to avoid
- you need serious or professional audio interaction
- you need production-quality sound design or accessibility compliance
- you need a maintained library with active support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: animation, audio-processing, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend, entertainment
- platform: browser
- tags: novelty, prank, scroll-events, sound-effects, vanilla-js, javascript

## Member repositories
- theonion/fartscroll.js (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:24.737390+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:37:17.111264+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/theonion/fartscroll.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:24.737390+00:00, sha 6a526b76eaa2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.