RSS feeds

Inspect RSS feed

Gets RSS feeds from the input URL, converts it to text, and shows it in a popover.

Actions Used

Web, Web Requests

Get Contents of URL

Gets the contents of URLs passed into the action. Useful for downloading files and web content, or for making API requests. Includes GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE methods, and options to add headers. To make a multipart HTTP request, choose “Form” as the request body type and add files as field values.

Documents, Text

Get Text from Input

Returns text from the previous action’s output. For example, this action can get the name of a photo or song, or the text of a web page.

Items, Scripting

Set Name

Sets the name of the item passed as input.

Lists, Scripting

Choose from List

Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection. Prompt The instruction provided when the list is presented. Select Multiple When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.

Documents, Previewing

Show Result

Shows the specified text in Siri or in an alert.

RSS, Web

Get RSS Feeds from Page

Extracts any RSS feed URLs from the given web URLs or web page.

Extra Details

Run Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Inspect%20RSS%20feed

Open Shortcut deep link

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Inspect%20RSS%20feed

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Inspect RSS feed” end tell

Membership

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