Browse Apple Developer topics
Presents a list of categories from Apple’s developer pages, then reformats the option of your choosing into the URL for that category and opens it.
Actions Used
Change Case
Changes the case of the text passed into the action to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.
Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Browse%20Apple%20Developer%20topics
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Browse%20Apple%20Developer%20topics
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Browse Apple Developer topics”
end tell
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