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TV app

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

Control Flow, Scripting

Choose from Menu

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

URLs, Web

URL

Passes the specified URL to the next action.

Scripting, Variables

Set Variable

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

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

iTunes Store, Media

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.

Lists, Scripting

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.

URLs, Web

Get URLs from Input

Returns any links found in the output from the previous action.

Documents, Text Editing

Replace Text

Replaces some text passed into the action with other text.

Dictionaries, Scripting

Dictionary

Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.

RSS, Web

Get Items from RSS Feed

Downloads the latest items from an RSS feed.

Articles, Web

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.

Documents, Text

Text

Passes the specified text to the next action.

Control Flow, Scripting

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

Dictionaries, Scripting

Get Dictionary Value

Gets the value for the specified key in the dictionary passed into the action.

Dictionaries, Scripting

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.

Safari, Web

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

Apple TV, Entertainment, Membership, Public, TV app

Custom 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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Presents a menu of the 7 movies in the Mission Impossible series (so far) and lets you open the film of choice in the TV app.

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Watch Harry Potter

Shows a menu that lets you pick from the 8 movies in the Harry Potter series and opens your choice in the TV app.

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Watch Lord of the Rings

Presents a menu of the six Lord of the Rings movies, with corresponding deep links into the TV app for each.

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Show Included With Apple TV

Opens the TV app to the “Included with Apple TV” category, showing the occassional set of movies that Apple makes free temporarily to go along with the theme of new Apple TV+ Originals.

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Open Apple TV Search

Opens the Search page in the TV app, letting you quickly type out a query or pick from their curated categories.

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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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