Add to my TV watchlist

Accepts a list of TV shows or movies, scrapes the results from Apple’s Marketing Toolbox, and lets you pick where to send the media – with options to open into the TV app, add to your Watchlist, send to Reminders, or copy the links.

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Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
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If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
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Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
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Ask for Input
Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.
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Find Notes
Searches for the notes in your library that match the given criteria. Sort by Optionally, what to sort the notes by. Order The order to sort the notes in. Limit Whether or not to limit the number of notes retrieved.
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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.
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Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
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Split Text
Separates text passed into the action into a list.
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Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
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Match Text
Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.
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URL
Passes the specified URL to the next action.
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Get Contents of Web Page
Extracts the contents of the web pages passed into the action.
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Get Name
Returns the name of every item passed as input. Depending on the input, this could be a file name, the title of a website, the title of a calendar event, etc.
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Show Alert
Displays an alert with a title, a message, and two buttons. If the user selects the OK button, the shortcut continues. The cancel button stops the shortcut.
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Stop shortcut
Stops execution of the current shortcut and dismisses the shortcut on screen. No more actions will be run after this action.
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Make HTML from Rich Text
Converts the rich text passed as input to HTML text.
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Get Item from List
Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.
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Get Group from Matched Text
Gets the text that matched a particular capture group or all of the capture groups from the output of a Match Text action.
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Set Name
Sets the name of the item passed as input.
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Count
Counts the number of items, characters, words, sentences, or lines passed as input. Note (from Apple, for real) This is just like the Count in Sesame Street, but instead of a vampire, it’s a Shortcuts action.
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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20to%20my%20TV%20watchlist
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20to%20my%20TV%20watchlist
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Add to my TV watchlist” end tell

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