TV app

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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Actions

Scripting, Variables

Set Variable

Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Control Flow, Scripting

Choose from Menu

Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

Documents, Notes

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.

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.

Documents, Text Editing

Replace Text

Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.

Documents, Text Editing

Split Text

Separates text passed into the action into a list.

Control Flow, Scripting

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

Documents, Text Editing

Match Text

Searches text passed into the action for matches to a regular expression.

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Web, Web Requests

Get Contents of Web Page

Extracts the contents of the web pages passed into the action.

Items, Scripting

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.

Notification, Scripting

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.

Control Flow, Scripting

Stop shortcut

Stops execution of the current shortcut and dismisses the shortcut on screen. No more actions will be run after this action.

Documents, Rich Text

Make HTML from Rich Text

Converts the rich text passed as input to HTML text.

Lists, Scripting

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.

Documents, Text Editing

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.

Items, Scripting

Set Name

Sets the name of the item passed as input.

Items, Scripting

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.

Shortcuts

Updated in the Shortcuts Library: TV app shortcuts

Enjoy my TV app shortcuts, designed with my updated Shortcuts-building process in mind – check out the new Watchlist shortcut!

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Open into the TV app

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Open sports in the TV app

Presents a menu of Sports sections available in the TV app, include overall Sports, plus MLS Season Pass and Major League Baseball, as well a dedicated section for your favorite home team.

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Browse the TV Store

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