Open Threads desktop
Opens the Threads web app (after using Add to Dock) and resizes it to 700px wide to show the controls. Run from the Menu Bar, a keyboard shortcut, or Shortcuts’ own “Add to Dock” feature.
Capture Thread to Bear
Scrapes a Threads post, formats the title, except, and link, and opens Bear to add it as a note.
Actions Used
Get Dictionary Value
Gets the value for the specified key in the dictionary passed into the action.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Capture%20Thread%20to%20Bear
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Capture%20Thread%20to%20Bear
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Capture Thread to Bear”
end tell
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Open Threads
Opens the Threads app from Instagram/Meta. If run from iPad, activates Stage Manager so the app works as a standalone window; on iPhone, use with a custom icon and Add to Home Screen. On Mac, opens Threads.net.
Scrape Threads post
Accepts a Thread link as input, extracts the username and excerpt, and formats it with multiple link types into a JSON dictionary shared as output.
OCR Thread
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, then opens the link, waits for it to load, takes a screenshot, extracts text from the screenshot, then prompts you to delete the extra text before replacing the excerpt in the Thread JSON dictionary.
Quote Thread
Accepts a Thread link, scrapes the data, then formats it as a quote from the author and links back to the post/profile. Works well as a function for saving Thread posts quickly.
Copy Threads post embed
Scrapes a Threads post, gets the embed code using the URL and username, and copies it to the clipboard.
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