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.
Check tech headlines
Pulls the RSS feed of Techmeme and returns the latest 5 article titles.
Actions Used
Get Article using Safari Reader
Gets article details, including body text, author, publish date, and more, from every URL passed into the action.
Input
URLs
Result
Article
Note
Use a Get Details of Article action immediately after this action to get specific details about the article. This action only supports getting one article from each URL.
Repeat with Each
Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.
If
Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.
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.
Dictionary
Passes the specified list of key-value pairs to the next action as a dictionary.
Combine Text
Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.
Nothing
This action does nothing and produces no output. It is useful to separate blocks of actions, or to ensure that no input is passed to the next action.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Check%20tech%20headlines
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Check%20tech%20headlines
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Check tech headlines”
end tell
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