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Word-of-the-Day WiFi Marquee

What's the worst gift you can give someone? One of those word-of-the-day calendars. Let's make one using the ESP8266 and some web scraping techniques.
 
Parts you need:
ESP8266 (I used a Wemos D1 Mini)
MAX7219 LED Display Dot led Matrix, quad module is nice (Qty 2-3)
 
 His ESP8266/ ESP32 web scraper tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdfCCwhQTE
 
The other web scraper program I wrote (in Python): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuNccXXiJE
 

Code

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