Check the Front Page
Pulls a scan from the New York Times or San Francisco Chronicle’s website with today’s front page.
Open Apple News Spotlight
Opens into the special News+ Spotlight section of the News app curated by Apple editors, including sections like Conversation Starters, Better Living, Weekend Reads, Good News, and Best of News+.
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Show my saved stories
Opens into the Saved Stories tab of the News app, where you can quickly access news stories you’ve saved for later – I’ll often save multiple stories as I browse, then visit this tab to read them all one-by-one.
Extract link from Apple News URL
Scrapes the original URL from a given apple.news link by loading the redirect and pulling the first link off the page.
Read about Music
Presents a menu to open into News stories about Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, or Amps.
See stories from Bay Area
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Show quartiles
Opens the “Quartiles” game available for Apple News+ subscribers in the News app.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Apple%20News%20Spotlight
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Apple News Spotlight”
end tell
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Show the Shortcuts tag on MacStories
Opens the tag page on the MacStories website for stories marked with “Shortcuts.”
Open Netflix movies
Opens the “Movies” tab in the Netflix app by opening the URL taken from the website.
Watch in YouTube app
Redirects a web URL for a YouTube into the mobile app by replacing `https: or or ` with `youtube: or or ` in the link.
Capture ChatGPT response
Asks you to enter a prompt for ChatGPT-4, then saves the prompt, response, and date into a new note in Bear.
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