Choose from Menu
Presents a menu and runs different actions based on which menu item was chosen.
Browse the TV Store
Presents a menu for opening into the TV app to the Store section, either directly usnig a deep link, using the iTunes actions in Shortcuts, or Apple’s RSS feeds for top movie and TV content – plus categories for dedicated “rooms” in the TV app for special content.
Preview
Scripting Actions
Set Variable
Sets the value of the specified variable to the input of this action.
Search iTunes Store
Searches the iTunes Store, returning the items that match the specified search terms. You can get more details about the results using the Get Details of iTunes Product action.
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.
Get URLs from Input
Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.
Replace Text
Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.
Dictionary
Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.
Get Details of Articles
Extracts information from an article, including title, author, published date, body, excerpt, number of words, main image URL, URL, and name.
If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
Get Dictionary Value
Gets the value for the specified key in the dictionary passed into the action.
Get Dictionary from Input
Makes a dictionary from the text passed as input. JSON (like {“foo”: “bar”}), key-value pairs (like foo=bar&baz=biz), and XML-based plist are supported.
Open URLs
Opens URLs passed into the action in Safari (or the corresponding app if it’s a deep link).
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Browse%20the%20TV%20Store
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Browse%20the%20TV%20Store
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Browse the TV Store”
end tell
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