diff --git a/scripts/build.js b/scripts/build.js
index f931e8249..e63ba7101 100644
--- a/scripts/build.js
+++ b/scripts/build.js
@@ -111,22 +111,7 @@ try {
 }
 
 // Load tag data from the database
-try {
-  tagDbData = objectFromPairs(
-    fs
-      .readFileSync('tag_database', 'utf8')
-      .split('\n')
-      .slice(0, -1)
-      .map(v => {
-        let data = v.split(':').slice(0, 2);
-        data[1] = data[1].split(',').map(t => t.trim());
-        return data;
-      })
-  );
-} catch (err) {
-  console.log(`${chalk.red('ERROR!')} During tag database loading: ${err}`);
-  process.exit(1);
-}
+tagDbData = util.readTags();
 
 // Create the output for the README file
 try {
diff --git a/scripts/tag.js b/scripts/tag.js
index 650b70c83..9b0371671 100644
--- a/scripts/tag.js
+++ b/scripts/tag.js
@@ -28,28 +28,13 @@ const countOccurrences = (arr, value) => arr.reduce((a, v) => (v === value ? a +
 console.time('Tagger');
 // Synchronously read all snippets and sort them as necessary (case-insensitive)
 snippets = util.readSnippets(snippetsPath);
-try {
-  tagDbData = objectFromPairs(
-    fs
-      .readFileSync('tag_database', 'utf8')
-      .split('\n')
-      .slice(0, -1)
-      .map(v => {
-        let data = v.split(':').slice(0, 2);
-        data[1] = data[1].split(',').map(t => t.trim());
-        return data;
-      })
-  );
-  tagDbStats = Object.entries(tagDbData)
-    .reduce((acc, val) => {
-      val[1].forEach(v => acc.hasOwnProperty(v) ? acc[v]++ : (acc[v] = 1));
-      return acc;
-    }, {});
-} catch (err) {
-  // Handle errors (hopefully not!)
-  console.log(`${chalk.red('ERROR!')} During tag database loading: ${err}`);
-  process.exit(1);
-}
+// Load tag data from the database
+tagDbData = util.readTags();
+tagDbStats = Object.entries(tagDbData)
+  .reduce((acc, val) => {
+    val[1].forEach(v => acc.hasOwnProperty(v) ? acc[v]++ : (acc[v] = 1));
+    return acc;
+  }, {});
 // Update the listing of snippets in tag_database and log the statistics, along with missing scripts
 try {
   for (let snippet of Object.entries(snippets))
diff --git a/scripts/util.js b/scripts/util.js
index e5de2a830..613e65ca3 100644
--- a/scripts/util.js
+++ b/scripts/util.js
@@ -23,4 +23,29 @@ const readSnippets = snippetsPath => {
   }
   return snippets;
 }
-module.exports = {readSnippets};
+// Used in `readTags`
+const objectFromPairs = arr => arr.reduce((a, v) => ((a[v[0]] = v[1]), a), {});
+// Load tag data from the database
+const readTags = () => {
+  let tagDbData = {};
+  try {
+    tagDbData = objectFromPairs(
+      fs
+        .readFileSync('tag_database', 'utf8')
+        .split('\n')
+        .slice(0, -1)
+        .map(v => {
+          let data = v.split(':').slice(0, 2);
+          data[1] = data[1].split(',').map(t => t.trim());
+          return data;
+        })
+    );
+
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Handle errors (hopefully not!)
+    console.log(`${chalk.red('ERROR!')} During tag database loading: ${err}`);
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+  return tagDbData;
+}
+module.exports = {readSnippets, readTags};
diff --git a/scripts/web.js b/scripts/web.js
index 30a04b0fd..4baddfd87 100644
--- a/scripts/web.js
+++ b/scripts/web.js
@@ -75,23 +75,7 @@ try {
   process.exit(1);
 }
 // Load tag data from the database
-try {
-  tagDbData = objectFromPairs(
-    fs
-      .readFileSync('tag_database', 'utf8')
-      .split('\n')
-      .slice(0, -1)
-      .map(v => {
-        let data = v.split(':').slice(0, 2);
-        data[1] = data[1].split(',').map(t => t.trim());
-        return data;
-      })
-  );
-} catch (err) {
-  // Handle errors (hopefully not!)
-  console.log(`${chalk.red('ERROR!')} During tag database loading: ${err}`);
-  process.exit(1);
-}
+tagDbData = util.readTags();
 // Create the output for the index.html file
 try {
   // Add the start static part